Gazebo Rotary#

Gazebo Rotary is a Rolling Release stream of Gazebo, built nightly from the main branches of every Gazebo library. It is intended for maintainers, CI systems, and early adopters. Not recommended for production use — for a stable release see Releases.

Binary installation instructions#

Binary installation is the recommended method of installing Gazebo.

Server-only installation#

A server-only package is available on Ubuntu for headless and CI environments. It installs the Gazebo server without GUI components, avoiding Qt and extra X11 dependencies to provide a much lighter installation.

Source Installation instructions#

Source installation is recommended for users planning on altering Gazebo’s source code (advanced).

Rotary Libraries#

The Rotary collection is composed of many different Gazebo libraries. The collection assures that all libraries are compatible and can be used together.

The best location to know the current versions of the rotary distribution is to check collection-rotary.yaml.

Supported platforms#

These are the officially supported platforms:

  • Ubuntu Noble (amd64) — nightly binary packages at packages.osrfoundation.org/gazebo/ubuntu-nightly.

  • Ubuntu Resolute (amd64) — nightly binary packages at packages.osrfoundation.org/gazebo/ubuntu-nightly.

  • macOS — formulae from the osrf/simulation Homebrew tap.

  • Windows — no binary; build from source.