How To Install gazebo9 on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gazebo9
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is gazebo9
gazebo9 is:
Gazebo is a multi-robot simulator for outdoor environments. Like Stage (part of the Player project), it is capable of simulating a population of robots, sensors and objects, but does so in a three-dimensional world. It generates both realistic sensor feedback and physically plausible interactions between objects (it includes an accurate simulation of rigid-body physics).
This package contains then main application binaries
There are three methods to install gazebo9
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install gazebo9 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install gazebo9
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gazebo9
Install gazebo9 Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gazebo9
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gazebo9
Install gazebo9 Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install gazebo9
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gazebo9
How To Uninstall gazebo9 on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the gazebo9
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gazebo9
Uninstall gazebo9 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gazebo9
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gazebo9
Remove gazebo9 Configurations and Data
To remove gazebo9
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gazebo9
Remove gazebo9 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gazebo9
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gazebo9
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gazebo9
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.