How to install gazebo to communicate with ROS
I have a fresh system with ubuntu 14.04 installed in it, i want to install ROS-desktop-full and gazebo. Will installing ROS-indigo-desktop-full installs gazebo standalone along with gazeborospkgs? or i have to install the suitable standalone gazebo and gazeborospkgs manually as given here
Asked by Kishore Kumar on 2015-09-28 05:24:50 UTC
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gazebo is already installed when you install ROS-indigo-desktop-full. then you can install the gazebo_ros_pkgs. if they are already installed, there is not problem if you install them again just to be sure
Asked by Diana on 2015-09-28 06:55:37 UTC
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Yes it installs gazebo seperately. You can verify by simply opening a terminal and typing gazebo
and then trying to rosrun a node. The node will tell you that roscore is not running, that is because ROS and Gazebo are two seperate things apart from eachother. The gazebo_ros
package is the one that allows the two systems to communicate with eachother. gazebo_ros
is installed with the full desktop install.
You can run both gazebo and ros together by running the empty_world.launch file located in the gazebo_ros
package by typing roslaunch gazebo_ros empty_world.launch
Asked by l0g1x on 2015-09-28 08:39:05 UTC
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