gz-python-bindings

When using Gazebo Harmonic and ROS 2 Jazzy together, gz-* packages come from ros-jazzy-gz-* apt repos. Python bindings for these packages are not distributed via apt or pip. This repository, gz-python-bindings builds the python bindings and packages them up in a simple PyPI index url for an easy pip install.

Prerequisites

Follow instructions for Installing Gazebo with ROS.

1. Install ROS 2 Jazzy

2. Install ros_gz

   sudo apt update
   sudo apt install ros-jazzy-ros-gz
   

3. Ensure these packages are also installed

   sudo apt update
   sudo apt install ros-jazzy-gz-sim-vendor ros-jazzy-gz-math-vendor
   

Install

python3 -m pip install -i https://mbari-org.github.io/gz-python-bindings/simple gz-python-bindings

Use

from gz.sim8 import *
from gz.common5 import *
from gz.math7 import *