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Gazebo gazegoing

Gazebo gazegoing

Few steps to get Gazebo going on Acer Chromebook 13 running trusty (14.04)

1. Install ros indigo for armhf
2. Install gazebo 4.0 from source gazebo source installation instruction

3. Run these commands to compile gazebo glue to ros

    mkdir ~/work
    cd ~/work
   
    mkdir -p ~/ros/src
    cd ~/ros/src
    catkin_init_workspace
   
    git clone https://github.com/ros-simulation/gazebo_ros_pkgs.git -b indigo-devel
    git clone https://github.com/ros-simulation/gazebo_ros_demos.git
    cd ..
    catkin_make
   

4. Install couple of missing packages

    sudo apt-get install ros-indigo-joint-state-controller
    sudo apt-get install ros-indigo-effort-controllers
   

5. Launch gazebo simulation

    roslaunch rrbot_gazebo rrbot_world