Gazebo installers broken/outdated? - No namespace found, empty model library, no download

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Hello, Since few days im trying to set up a Gazebo alongside with ROS, the installation goes smoothly but there are problems when it comes to getting models. They refuse to download and because of that i cant add anything to my world nor open any worlds.

Every time i install Gazebo, no matter how i do it and which version, it gets stuck on:

Warning [ModelDatabase.cc:334] Getting models from[http://gazebosim.org/models/]. This may take a few seconds.
Warning [gazebo.cc:215] Waited 1seconds for namespaces.
Warning [gazebo.cc:215] Waited 1seconds for namespaces.
Warning [gazebo.cc:215] Waited 1seconds for namespaces.
Warning [gazebo.cc:215] Waited 1seconds for namespaces.
Warning [gazebo.cc:215] Waited 1seconds for namespaces.
Warning [gazebo.cc:215] Waited 1seconds for namespaces.
Warning [gazebo.cc:215] Waited 1seconds for namespaces.
Warning [gazebo.cc:215] Waited 1seconds for namespaces.
Warning [gazebo.cc:215] Waited 1seconds for namespaces.
Warning [gazebo.cc:215] Waited 1seconds for namespaces.
Error [gazebo.cc:220] Waited 11 seconds for namespaces. Giving up.
Error [Node.cc:90] No namespace found
Error [Node.cc:90] No namespace found
Error [Node.cc:90] No namespace found
Error [Node.cc:90] No namespace found
Error [Node.cc:90] No namespace found
Error [Node.cc:90] No namespace found
Error [Node.cc:90] No namespace found
Error [Node.cc:90] No namespace found
Error [Node.cc:90] No namespace found
Error [Node.cc:90] No namespace found
Error [Node.cc:90] No namespace found

This above was from gazebo 2.2 with ROS Indigo, i was suggested to upgrade to newer version to solve this issue but even when i installed Ubuntu 16 LTS with Gazebo 7 and ros Kinetic the issure remained.

For the installation i used methods described in this tutorial wiki.ros.org/kinetic/Installation/Ubuntu and after each install i followed up with steps from this tutorial wiki.ros.org/ROS/Tutorials/InstallingandConfiguringROSEnvironment All the instructions execute flawlessly untill i get to launch Gazebo and every time models fail to download.

I even tried to do a clean install of gazebo with sudo apt install gazebo7 and even then the same issue remains:

gazebo --verbose
Gazebo multi-robot simulator, version 7.0.0
Copyright (C) 2012-2016 Open Source Robotics Foundation.
Released under the Apache 2 License.
http://gazebosim.org

Gazebo multi-robot simulator, version 7.0.0
Copyright (C) 2012-2016 Open Source Robotics Foundation.
Released under the Apache 2 License.
http://gazebosim.org

[Msg] Waiting for master.
[Msg] Waiting for master.
[Msg] Connecting to gazebo master @ http://127.0.0.1:11345
[Msg] Publicized address: 192.168.1.102
[Wrn] [GuiIface.cc:218] Couldn't locate specificed .ini. Creating file at "/home/ros/.gazebo/gui.ini"
[Msg] Connected to gazebo master @ http://127.0.0.1:11345
[Msg]  Publicized address: 192.168.1.102
[Wrn] [ModelDatabase.cc:339] Getting models from [http://gazebsim.org/models/].
This may take a few seconds.
[Err] [Node.cc:105] No namespace found
[Err] [Node.cc:105 ...