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I ran into the same issue when working through the urdf tutorials. I spent significant amount of time tracking down the issue only to realize the way to fix it is add urdf to find_package() in the CMakeList.txt file.

find_package(catkin REQUIRED COMPONENTS
    roscpp
    rospy
    std_msgs
    urdf <-- Added this and it fixed the issue
)

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