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This may be a bit too late, but you could try installing the "python-empy" package using

sudo apt install python-empy

and the rerun catkin build. I have noticed that sometimes if on your system if you have not run the rosdep install step correctly or it did not complete for whatever reason, all these dependencies rear their head when running catkin build

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