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.