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I don't believe xacro is put on the regular PATH on Trusty/Indigo. That is only in Kinetic (and Jade probably). You should probably use rosrun xacro xacro ...

Note: the readme you refer to (probably this one) is the readme for Kinetic. The Indigo one (this one) does not contain any instructions to generate an .srdf.

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