Well I went back and started all over again. I installed both player and stage per the apt-get commands and got errors when I tried to run stage. So, I again started all over again and installed player per the apt-get command but I installed stage from source code. What I got was when I ran the player simple.cfg in the stage source file I got these errors.
error : Failed to load plugin stageplugin.
error : libtool reports error: file not found
error : plugin search path: /usr/local/lib:/home/reactor/Downloads/Stage-3.2.2-Source/worlds:.:/usr/lib/:/usr/lib/robot-player
error : failed to load plugin: stageplugin
error : failed to parse config file simple.cfg driver blocks
reactor@ubuntu:~/Downloads/Stage-3.2.2-Source/worlds$
Now when I ran robot-player from the /usr/share/player/config/simple.cfg I got these errors
reactor@ubuntu:/usr/share/player/config$ ls
afsm.cfg mapfile.cfg searchpattern_symbols.ps
afsm.eps mbicp.cfg segwayrmp.cfg
amigobot.cfg nomad.cfg service_adv.cfg
amigobot_tcp.cfg obot.cfg simple.cfg
amtecM5.cfg passthrough.cfg sphere.cfg
b21r_rflex_lms200.cfg phidgetIFK.cfg umass_ATRVJr.cfg
cvcam.cfg phidgetRFID.cfg umass_ATRVMini.cfg
dummy.cfg pioneer.cfg umass_reb.cfg
erratic.cfg pioneer_rs4euze.cfg urglaser.cfg
hokuyo_aist.cfg pointcloud3d.cfg vfh.cfg
iwspy.cfg readlog.cfg wavefront.cfg
joystick.cfg rfid.cfg wbr914.cfg
lms400.cfg roomba.cfg writelog.cfg
magellan.cfg searchpattern.cfg wsn.cfg
reactor@ubuntu:/usr/share/player/config$ robot-player simple.cfg
Registering driver
Player v.3.0.2
* Part of the Player/Stage/Gazebo Project [
http://playerstage.sourceforge.net].
* Copyright (C) 2000 - 2009 Brian Gerkey, Richard Vaughan, Andrew Howard,
* Nate Koenig, and contributors. Released under the GNU General Public License.
* Player comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you
* are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; see COPYING
* for details.
error : Couldn't find driver "p2os_position"
error : failed to parse config file simple.cfg driver blocks
reactor@ubuntu:/usr/share/player/config$
Now here is the kicker. When I ran stage simple.world I got the nice big window to move and play with the robot. I also ran another world file and again I got the nice big window that looked at pac-man with a robot and it worked. But, my robot-player is not playing its simple.cfg file. Huh.......... Back to the drawing board. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Well I went back to loading the source code and come back full circle to where I was from the beginning. Here is my error.
reactor@ubuntu:/usr/local/share/player/config$ player simple.cfg
player: error while loading shared libraries: libplayertcp.so.3.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory