Gazebo: Q&A Forum - RSS feed source question and answer forum for GazeboenCopyright Askbot, 2010-2011.Mon, 02 Sep 2013 10:51:20 -0500xacro dependency problem while installing gazebo_ros_pkgs on ROS Groovy'm running **ROS Groovy** on **Ubuntu 12.04**, and I'm trying to install **Gazebo 1.9** from sources, as explained in the [online tutorial]( on the official wiki. I can clone the repos (including *ros_controllers*) and update rosdep without problems, but when I get to rosdep check --from-paths . --ignore-src --rosdistro hydro I get the following error ERROR[joint_trajectory_controller]: Cannot locate rosdep definition for [xacro] rosdep key : xacro OS name : ubuntu OS version : precise Data: <no data> Looking around for solutions, I found out [here]( that the problem is probably that xacro is a dry (rosbuild) package and so it cannot be referenced from a catkin package. If I ignore the error and go on, after a `catkin_make` I get Set xacro_DIR to the directory containing a CMake configuration file for xacro. The file will have one of the following names: xacroConfig.cmake xacro-config.cmake Can you suggest any way of dealing with this problem?micpalmiaMon, 02 Sep 2013 10:51:20 -0500 will Gazebo be catkin-ized in ROS? ROS Groovy, the Gazebo debian is still currently using rosbuild, and the Gazebo installation instructions say that ROS users should not install from source. Additionally, Gazebo for ROS is still on version 1.2 instead of 1.3. The reason I need Gazebo to be catkinized is because I tried following your [animate joint]( tutorial and CMake can't find Gazebo. I assume that is because Gazebo on my computer is installed here: > /opt/ros/groovy/stacks/simulator_gazebo/gazebo/gazebo/share/gazebo-1.2/ I tried sourcing the in the above folder but it didn't help CMake. I also tried catkinizing the animate joint tutorial but realized it wouldn't work because Gazebo is still a dry package.davetcolemanFri, 04 Jan 2013 15:10:49 -0600