how to install gazebo from source in ROS fuerte?

Question

Hello, i need to update my gazebo version because the one that fuerte has don't works with the colission sensors...

Can anybody halp me?

EDIT.........

Well, i did what @lorenz say but when i run the new gazebo i obtain this error:

jose@ubuntu:~/fuerte_workspace$ roslaunch gazebo_worlds empty_world.launch
... logging to /home/jose/.ros/log/db94fb8e-3a37-11e2-aee9-e0ca942b6aa6/roslaunch-ubuntu-6598.log
Checking log directory for disk usage. This may take awhile.
Press Ctrl-C to interrupt
Done checking log file disk usage. Usage is <1GB.

started roslaunch server http://ubuntu:45513/

SUMMARY
========

PARAMETERS
 * /rosdistro
 * /rosversion
 * /use_sim_time

NODES
  /
    gazebo (gazebo/gazebo)
    gazebo_gui (gazebo/gui)

ROS_MASTER_URI=http://localhost:11311

core service [/rosout] found
Exception AttributeError: AttributeError("'_DummyThread' object has no attribute '_Thread__block'",) in <module 'threading' from '/usr/lib/python2.7/threading.pyc'> ignored
process[gazebo-1]: started with pid [6618]
/home/jose/fuerte_workspace/simulator_gazebo/gazebo/scripts/gazebo: 16: /home/jose/fuerte_workspace/simulator_gazebo/gazebo/scripts/gazebo: /home/jose/fuerte_workspace/simulator_gazebo/gazebo/gazebo/bin/gzserver: not found
[gazebo-1] process has died [pid 6618, exit code 127, cmd /home/jose/fuerte_workspace/simulator_gazebo/gazebo/scripts/gazebo /home/jose/fuerte_workspace/simulator_gazebo/gazebo_worlds/worlds/empty.world __name:=gazebo __log:=/home/jose/.ros/log/db94fb8e-3a37-11e2-aee9-e0ca942b6aa6/gazebo-1.log].
log file: /home/jose/.ros/log/db94fb8e-3a37-11e2-aee9-e0ca942b6aa6/gazebo-1*.log
Exception AttributeError: AttributeError("'_DummyThread' object has no attribute '_Thread__block'",) in <module 'threading' from '/usr/lib/python2.7/threading.pyc'> ignored
process[gazebo_gui-2]: started with pid [6625]
/home/jose/fuerte_workspace/simulator_gazebo/gazebo/scripts/gui: línea 2: /home/jose/fuerte_workspace/simulator_gazebo/gazebo/gazebo/bin/gzclient: No existe el archivo o el directorio
[gazebo_gui-2] process has died [pid 6625, exit code 127, cmd /home/jose/fuerte_workspace/simulator_gazebo/gazebo/scripts/gui __name:=gazebo_gui __log:=/home/jose/.ros/log/db94fb8e-3a37-11e2-aee9-e0ca942b6aa6/gazebo_gui-2.log].
log file: /home/jose/.ros/log/db94fb8e-3a37-11e2-aee9-e0ca942b6aa6/gazebo_gui-2*.log
all processes on machine have died, roslaunch will exit
shutting down processing monitor...
... shutting down processing monitor complete
done

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Originally posted by joseescobar60 on ROS Answers with karma: 172 on 2012-11-29

Post score: 1

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Original comments

Comment by Lorenz on 2012-11-29:
The binary doesn't seem to be present. Are you sure you built it using rosmake?

Comment by joseescobar60 on 2012-11-29:
no, i'm making it... Thank you!

Comment by joseescobar60 on 2012-11-29:
i get this error:
-- BUILD ERRORS: These must be resolved before compiling. -- Missing: Google Protobuf (libprotobuf-dev) -- Missing: Google Protobuf Compiler Library (libprotoc-dev) -- Missing: libtar -- END BUILD ERRORS

Comment by Lorenz on 2012-11-29:
The error tells you that it could not find some libraries. Just install them: sudo apt-get install libprotoc-dev libtar-dev libprotobuf-dev libcegui-mk2-dev

Comment by joseescobar60 on 2012-11-29:
i have to do the rosmake again???

Comment by Lorenz on 2012-11-29:
Sure. If the build failed you need to fix the problem and rebuild.

Answer 1

First you'll have to check out the ROS stack for gazebo and put it into your ros workspace (instructions for setting up a workspace):

rosws set --svn simulator_gazebo https://code.ros.org/svn/ros-pkg/stacks/simulator_gazebo/trunk
rosws update

Then just build the stack with rosmake:

rosmake simulator_gazebo

If I'm reading the Gazebo CMakeLists.txt file correctly, it will use the development version from mercurial by default.

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Originally posted by Lorenz with karma: 22731 on 2012-11-29

This answer was ACCEPTED on the original site

Post score: 2

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Original comments

Comment by joseescobar60 on 2012-11-29:
hello, i did what you say but how can i know which version of gazebo i have installed o where is installed this nwe version

Comment by Lorenz on 2012-11-29:
The new version is installed right in the ros package. roscd gazebo will jump to the gazebo package that is used and rospack find gazebo will show you the path. Note that you might need to re-compile gazebo plugins if there were ABI changes in the dev version of gazebo.

Comment by joseescobar60 on 2012-11-29:
i run gazebo but is the same version in the cmakelist file i have this: rosbuild_make_distribution(1.6.16), and the problem with the contact sensors is not fixed

Comment by Lorenz on 2012-11-29:
Sorry. I had a little mistake in my rosws command. Please edit the file $ROS_WORKSPACE/.rosinstall and fix the url of the gazebo repository. It should be the last line in that file. Then run rosws update and open a new terminal or re-source the setup.bash file in your overlay.

Comment by joseescobar60 on 2012-11-30:
hello, i have a question, can i install any gazebo version for my ros fuerte?, because the version that i installed yesterday don't works very well and is too heavy for my hardware especifications...

Comment by Lorenz on 2012-11-30:
You can install whatever version you want. You just need to change the CMakeLists.txt file and the makefile that is used for downloading gazebo's source code manually.

Comment by joseescobar60 on 2012-11-30:
what version is the most estable??

Comment by Lorenz on 2012-11-30:
That I don't know. For me the default ROS gazebo in fuerte always worked perfectly fine.

Comment by joseescobar60 on 2012-11-30:
yes, but has problems with the contacsensor, thank you for everything...

Comment by Andrei Haidu on 2012-12-04:
after rosmake I get the following error:
Linking CXX shared library libgazebo_sdf_interface.so /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -l/usr/lib/libboost_thread-mt.so collect2: ld returned 1 exit status And I have this library in usr/lib