Setting Gazebo

Setting up Gazebo 2.0

In a fresh (preferably) installation of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (32 or 64 bit) do the following :

Follow the instructions from here : http://gazebosim.org/wiki/2.0/install#Pre-compiled_binaries

Now try to run gazebo

If gazebo runs and the simulation time increases as it should you made it! 👍 If gazebo freezes constantly or crushes, unfortunately gazebo has a compatibility problem with your graphics card and we have found no solution yet... 👎

Add to your bashrc the following line: source /usr/share/gazebo/setup.sh

Finally if you want to download all the gazebo models in order not to try to connect to the model server every time gazebo starts execute the following :

cd ~/.gazebo/

hg clone https://bitbucket.org/osrf/gazebo_models

mv gazebo_models/ models/