Ubuntu

Gazebo is now distributed for Ubuntu via pre-compiled binaries.
First time users of Gazebo should follow these instructions.

Once Gazebo is installed, you can retrieve the latest version with:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gazebo

Non-Ubuntu

Downloading a tarball and compiling from source is the preferred installation method for users of other linux flavors.

Installation instructions are found here.

Change log is located here.

  Source
Latest Release (Recommended)
gazebo-1.8.0
17 May 2013
gazebo-1.8.0.tar.bz2 (37.9MB)
Previous Release
gazebo-1.7.3
08 May 2013
gazebo-1.7.3.tar.bz2 (37.9MB)
Archived Releases

Mercurial

The Gazebo Mercurial repository is hosted on bitbucket.org, and can be cloned using:

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

If you want bleeding edge (and potentially unstable) code, update your mercurial repository to the dev branch:

hg up dev

For more information on compiling from source, please follow these instructions.