Following the bug I described in a previous post, I decided to install again Gazebo and ROS. Some unexpected messages in the ROS tools make me think that I had to have inconsistent settings between the versions of both tools and even Ubuntu.

So after a fresh install of Ubuntu 13.04, I followed step by step the tutorials. I swear to post what I did when it will work. Unfortunately, the installation form the debs of gazebo_ros_pkgs, the package in the middle of Gazebo and ROS, fails due to unmet dependencies:

This issue is posted on Gazebo Answers. It is still not clear of Gazebo 2.0 is compatible with ROS. I will now try to install Gazebo 1.9 from the source.

This is not the first time that I face issue with the installation or the integration between the two components. They are currently under heavy development, due to the carve of Gazebo out of ROS.

I can’t avoid asking myself if I made a good choice in using the last release and not a more stable one (which I did not found in the documentation anyway).