Installing Gazebo 8 with ROS Kinetic

Installing ROS Kinetic and Gazebo 8 on Ubuntu 16.04

Install ROS Kinetic

http://wiki.ros.org/kinetic/Installation/Ubuntu

1. Configure Ubuntu to allow "restricted", "universe" and "multiverse" repositories. Detailed instructions:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories/Ubuntu

2. Setup sources.list

• sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://packages.ros.org/ros/ubuntu $(lsb_release -sc) main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ros-latest.list'

3. Set up keys

• sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://ha.pool.sks-keyservers.net:80 --recv-key 421C365BD9FF1F717815A3895523BAEEB01FA116

4. Update package index

• sudo apt-get update

5. Install ROS Kinetic

• sudo apt-get install ros-kinetic-desktop-full

6. Initialize rosdep

• sudo rosdep init

• rosdep update

7. Add /opt/ros/kinetic/setup.bash to ".bashrc". The command has to be for every user planning to use ROS

• sudo echo "source /opt/ros/kinetic/setup.bash" >> ~/.bashrc

8. Rosinstall

• sudo apt-get install python-rosinstall

Setup ROS Catkin workspace

http://wiki.ros.org/ROS/Tutorials/InstallingandConfiguringROSEnvironment

1. Open a new terminal. Create folder for workspace

• mkdir -p ~/catkin_ws/src

2. "Build" the empty workspace

• cd ~/catkin_ws/

• catkin_make

3. Add ~/catkin_ws/devel/setup.bash to ".bashrc". The command has to be run with every user planning to use ROS

• sudo echo "source ~/catkin_ws/devel/setup.bash" >> ~/.bashrc

Install Gazebo 8

http://gazebosim.org/tutorials/?tut=ros_wrapper_versions

http://gazebosim.org/tutorials?tut=install_ubuntu

1. Open a new terminal. Uninstall Gazebo 7

• sudo apt-get remove gazebo7

2. Install Gazebo 8

• curl -ssL http://get.gazebosim.org | sh

3. Install ROS Gazebo 8 packages

• sudo apt-get install ros-kinetic-gazebo8-ros-pkgs

• sudo apt-get install ros-kinetic-gazebo8-ros-control

• sudo apt install ros-kinetic-gazebo8-ros

4. Try running Gazebo, launching for the first time will take a little longer than usual

• gazebo

Installing ROS Kinetic and Gazebo 8 (Before ros Gazebo8 packages were added to the repository)

• Install ROS Kinetic full installation

http://wiki.ros.org/kinetic/Installation/Ubuntu

• Uninstall Gazebo 7

• Install Gazebo 8

http://gazebosim.org/tutorials?tut=install_ubuntu

' curl -ssL http://get.gazebosim.org | sh '

• Clone gazebo_ros_pkgs to catkin_ws/src

gazebo_ros_pkgs https://github.com/ros-simulation/gazebo_ros_pkgs gazebo_ros_pkgs

• try to catkin_make

I got about 3 errors of missing dependencies one a time and installed them with ' sudo apt-get install ros-kinetic-<package_name> ' Some "_" needed to be "-" for installing, use tab-completion to finish typing. Install each package and repeat until successful.

after successfully catkin_make'ing the package the installation should be done.

• Error building keyboard_reader package

"error: ros/ros.h: No such file or directory" Solved by adding the line " include_directories(${catkin_INCLUDE_DIRS}) " to package CMakeLists.txt

https://github.com/ros-interactive-manipulation/sql_database/issues/8

• teleop_twist_keyboard

after installing teleop_twist_keyboard with ' sudo apt-get install ros-kinetic-teleop-twist-keyboard ' the package did not publish /cmd_vel. When uinstalled and built from source worked as expected.

http://wiki.ros.org/teleop_twist_keyboard