Get Player

Table of Contents Downloading the source code Official Installation guides Unofficial Installation guides Downloading binary packages Debian/Ubuntu packages Fedora packages Gentoo packages Windows

Downloading the source code

The official download page for all the software of the Player project is located on github:

• Official source code

Instructions to download the latest git version can be found in The basic FAQ.

All the software of the Player project is under the GNU General Public License, downloading, modifying and copying is encouraged (please contribute patches!).

Official Installation guides

• Installation guide for Player on Linux
• Installation guide for Player on Windows
• Installation guide for Stage on Linux
• Installation guide for Gazebo current on Linux
• Installation guide for Gazebo 0.7 on Linux

Unofficial Installation guides

• Installation guide for Player and Stage on Mac OS X 10.6 using Fink
• Installation guide for Player and Stage on Mac OS X 10.6 using MacPorts
• Installation guide for Player and Stage on Mac OS X 10.5 using MacPorts
• Installation guide for Player and Stage on Mac OSX using Fink or DarwinPorts (MacPorts). Also includes installing OpenCV
• How to install as unprivileged user
• Installation instructions for Player/Stage 2.0.x on Mac OS X 10.4.x (Tiger) with Fink, including instructions for OpenCV.

Downloading binary packages

Some packages are contributed by third parties developers. WARNING! These packages are by no means official! We make no guarantees regarding the correctness, completeness or currency of these packages; use at your own risk.

Debian/Ubuntu packages

• Requires: Linux Debian/Ubuntu
• Provides: Player, Stage, Gazebo

For Ubuntu 9.10 or superior go to: https://launchpad.net/~thjc/+archive/ppa/

Click on "Technical Details about this PPA", select your Ubuntu version and then add the generated lines in the Other Software tab in System>Administration>Software Sources.

Note: Using Gazebo from these packages doesn't work for me on Ubuntu 9.10. But using Gazebo compiled from svn rev. 8325 worked fine (with some minor bugs). To avoid compiling Ogre 1.6.4 i used the debian sid packages - B2ag

Fedora packages

• Requires: Fedora 11 or higher
• Provides: Player, Stage

Player is available directly from Fedora's repositories. Fedora 11 and up all have packages for the latest Player version that was available during the respective Fedora release cycle. You can install all of the Player components by running the command:

sudo dnf install player player-devel player-doc player-examples python2-player ruby-player

Stage is also included in Fedora 11 and beyond. To install all of the Stage components, run the command:

sudo dnf install stage stage-devel stage-playerplugin

Gentoo packages

• Requires: Linux Gentoo
• Provides: Player, Stage, Gazebo

Gentoo ebuilds for Player, Stage and Gazebo can be found here (thanks to Victor Manuel Jaquez Leal):

• http://playerstage.sourceforge.net/doc/packages/gentoo/psg-portage.tar.gz

The installation instructions can be found in the Gentoo wiki's HOWTO install Gazebo/Player/Stage If you want to use player from within python, you will need player-2.0.3. Otherwise, "import playerc" will fail.

Windows

• Requires: Windows XP or higher
• Provides: Player

As of Player 3, all Player releases are also released with Windows installer packages. The installer is available from SourceForge. Windows users will need to add the Player bin/ and lib/ directories to the system PATH.

Player needs the pthreads-win32 libraries to function correctly on Windows. The pthread-vc2 library should be download from the pthreads-win32 page and also placed on the system PATH.