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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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Yes , If you want to learn more about gazebo. You can follow the tutorials in the here And there are also some cources about ROS which teaches gazebo too.Here

Asked by wsAndy on 2015-09-28 11:24:26 UTC

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