Problem with libassimp while running gazebo

sharonshabtai · 03-14-2011, 11:16 AM

Hi,
I have installed and built gazebo and it passed without any errors.
I'm running on ubunto 10.10, and I installed gazebo version 0.10 (straight from their website)
while trying to run it ( with a given world or without as shown below) I get the following error:
root:~# gazebo
gazebo: error while loading shared libraries: libassimp.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I tried installing libassimp again, I have installed the 2.0 version from this link
http://sourceforge.net/projects/assi...es/assimp-2.0/

when searching for libassimp I get the following results:
root:~#find / | grep libassimp.so
/home/admin123/Downloads/gazebo-0.10.0/build/3rd_party/assimp/code/libassimp.so
/home/admin123/Downloads/assimp--2.0.863-sdk/build/code/libassimp.so.2.0.0
/home/admin123/Downloads/assimp--2.0.863-sdk/build/code/libassimp.so
/home/admin123/Downloads/assimp--2.0.863-sdk/build/code/libassimp.so.2
/usr/local/bin/libassimp.so
/usr/local/lib/libassimp.so

I would appreciate any help you can offer.
Thanks

knudfl · 03-14-2011, 12:27 PM

Quote:

root:~# gazebo

Why are you running gazebo as root ? ?
Should be done as 'unprivileged user' only, I think.

My guess is that gazebo looks for libassimp.so in /usr/lib/
and not /usr/local/lib/

( One of say 400 binaries are hard coded to look in /usr/lib/ only.)

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