[ver 6][osx] "Install Gazebo on Mac (using homebrew)" issues

osrf-migration commented 9 years ago

Original report (archived issue) by Isaac Saito (Bitbucket: 130s).

Tutorial URL: http://gazebosim.org/tutorials?tut=install_on_mac&cat=install

Issues:

dart wasn't installed following the commands in the tutorial.

$ brew tap dartsim/dart
Warning: Already tapped!
$ brew install dartsim --core-only
Error: No available formula for dartsim 
==> Searching formulae...
dartsim/dart/dartsim3       dartsim/dart/dartsim5   dartsim/dart/grip
dartsim/dart/dartsim4       dartsim/dart/fcl
==> Searching taps...

Possible improvements:

Installation of Homebrew might break the libraries that are already built on your Mac. So I suggest adding a check if Homebrew is already installed or not, and only if it's not installed yet do the installation (though not sure since I'm no OSX expert).
I'm afraid this installation tutorial doesn't mention the possibility of overwriting "gazebo" command of the version that's already installed.

Tested environment:

$ sw_vers -productVersion 
10.10.4

osrf-migration commented 9 years ago

Original comment by Steve Peters (Bitbucket: Steven Peters, GitHub: scpeters).

Good catch on the dartsim installation. They renamed the formula from dartsim to dartsim4. We should update the gazebo formulae in osrf/simulation accordingly.

osrf-migration commented 9 years ago

Original comment by Steve Peters (Bitbucket: Steven Peters, GitHub: scpeters).

About possible improvements:

I assume you already had a version of gazebo installed, perhaps from a ROS installation? We should add a disclaimer for people who have already installed it that you can only have one installation in /usr/local at a given time.

To manage multiple installations, I like to use catkin workspaces:

http://gazebosim.org/tutorials?tut=install_from_source&cat=install#Installinacatkinworkspace

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