Download and Install SDF

Ubuntu

sudo apt-get install libsdformat2-dev

Compiling From Source (Ubuntu)

Prerequisites

Make sure you have removed the Ubuntu pre-compiled binaries before installing from source

sudo apt-get remove 'libsdformat*' 'sdformat*'

If you have previously installed from source, be sure you are installing to the same path location or that you have removed the previous installation from source version manually.

Install Required Dependencies

Install prerequisites. A clean Ubuntu system will need:

sudo apt-get install build-essential libtinyxml-dev libboost-all-dev cmake mercurial pkg-config

Build And Install SDFormat

1. Clone the repository into a directory in your home folder:

   mkdir ~/sdf_source
   cd ~/sdf_source/
   hg clone https://bitbucket.org/osrf/sdformat
   

2. Change directory into the sdformat repository and switch to the 2.0 branch

   cd sdformat
   hg up sdf_2.0
   

Note: the default branch is the development branch where you'll find the bleeding edge code, your cloned repository should be on this branch by default but we recommend you switch to the 2.0 branch if you desire more stability

1. Create a build directory and go there

   mkdir build
   cd build
   

2. Build and install

   cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr
   make -j4
   sudo make install
   

Uninstalling Source-based Install

If you need to uninstall SDF or switch back to a debian-based install of SDF when you currently have installed SDF from source, navigate to your source code directory's build folders and run make uninstall:

cd ~/sdf_source/sdformat/build
sudo make uninstall