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It looks like the package ros-groovy-robot-model-tutorials is broken. It contains a .vcg file but not a .rviz file. Is the only path forward to abandoned the packages and work directly from git?

dpkg-query -W ros-groovy-robot-model-tutorials
ros-groovy-robot-model-tutorials    0.1.2-s1374436389~precise

dpkg-query -L ros-groovy-robot-model-tutorials
/.
/opt
/opt/ros
/opt/ros/groovy
/opt/ros/groovy/stacks
/opt/ros/groovy/stacks/robot_model_tutorials
/opt/ros/groovy/stacks/robot_model_tutorials/urdf_tutorial
/opt/ros/groovy/stacks/robot_model_tutorials/urdf_tutorial/r2d2.xacro
/opt/ros/groovy/stacks/robot_model_tutorials/urdf_tutorial/06-flexible.urdf
/opt/ros/groovy/stacks/robot_model_tutorials/urdf_tutorial/bin
/opt/ros/groovy/stacks/robot_model_tutorials/urdf_tutorial/08-macroed.urdf.xacro
/opt/ros/groovy/stacks/robot_model_tutorials/urdf_tutorial/mainpage.dox
/opt/ros/groovy/stacks/robot_model_tutorials/urdf_tutorial/03-origins.urdf
/opt/ros/groovy/stacks/robot_model_tutorials/urdf_tutorial/manifest.xml
/opt/ros/groovy/stacks/robot_model_tutorials/urdf_tutorial/urdf.vcg
/opt/ros/groovy/stacks/robot_model_tutorials/urdf_tutorial/04-materials.urdf
/opt/ros/groovy/stacks/robot_model_tutorials/urdf_tutorial/images
/opt/ros/groovy/stacks/robot_model_tutorials/urdf_tutorial/images/visual.png
/opt/ros/groovy/stacks/robot_model_tutorials/urdf_tutorial/images/materials.png
/opt/ros/groovy/stacks/robot_model_tutorials/urdf_tutorial/images/origins.png
/opt/ros/groovy/stacks/robot_model_tutorials/urdf_tutorial/images/flexible.png
/opt/ros/groovy/stacks/robot_model_tutorials/urdf_tutorial/images/multipleshapes.png
/opt/ros/groovy/stacks/robot_model_tutorials/urdf_tutorial/images/myfirst.png
/opt/ros/groovy/stacks/robot_model_tutorials/urdf_tutorial/xacrodisplay.launch
/opt/ros/groovy/stacks/robot_model_tutorials/urdf_tutorial/02-multipleshapes.urdf
/opt/ros/groovy/stacks/robot_model_tutorials/urdf_tutorial/lib
/opt/ros/groovy/stacks/robot_model_tutorials/urdf_tutorial/07-physics.urdf
/opt/ros/groovy/stacks/robot_model_tutorials/urdf_tutorial/Makefile
/opt/ros/groovy/stacks/robot_model_tutorials/urdf_tutorial/ROS_NOBUILD
/opt/ros/groovy/stacks/robot_model_tutorials/urdf_tutorial/05-visual.urdf
/opt/ros/groovy/stacks/robot_model_tutorials/urdf_tutorial/display.launch
/opt/ros/groovy/stacks/robot_model_tutorials/urdf_tutorial/01-myfirst.urdf
/opt/ros/groovy/stacks/robot_model_tutorials/urdf_tutorial/CMakeLists.txt
/opt/ros/groovy/stacks/robot_model_tutorials/urdf_tutorial/gazebo.launch
/opt/ros/groovy/stacks/robot_model_tutorials/.hgtags
/opt/ros/groovy/stacks/robot_model_tutorials/stack.xml
/opt/ros/groovy/stacks/robot_model_tutorials/Makefile
/opt/ros/groovy/stacks/robot_model_tutorials/CMakeLists.txt
/usr
/usr/share
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/ros-groovy-robot-model-tutorials
/usr/share/doc/ros-groovy-robot-model-tutorials/changelog.Debian.gz

From what I gather the only path forward is to abandon the package in question and use the source from git for this particular package.

mkdir -p ~/overlay_ws/src
cd ~/overlay_ws/src
git clone git://github.com/ros/ros_tutorials.git
git clone git://github.com/ros/urdf_tutorial.git
cd ~/overlay_ws/
catkin_make
source ~/overlay_ws/devel/setup.bash
echo "source ~/overlay_ws/devel/setup.bash" >> ~/.bashrc
roscd urdf_tutorials
pwd
# should be ~/overlay_ws/src/urdf_tutorial
cd ~/overlay_ws/src/urdf_tutorial/urdf_tutorial
roslaunch urdf_tutorial display.launch model:=06-flexible.urdf gui:=True

these steps were extracted from http://wiki.ros.org/catkin/Tutorials/workspace_overlaying (thanks for the tip felix)

It looks like the package ros-groovy-robot-model-tutorials is broken. It contains a .vcg file but not a .rviz file. Is the only path forward to abandoned the packages and work directly from git?file.

dpkg-query -W ros-groovy-robot-model-tutorials
ros-groovy-robot-model-tutorials    0.1.2-s1374436389~precise

dpkg-query -L ros-groovy-robot-model-tutorials
/.
/opt
/opt/ros
/opt/ros/groovy
/opt/ros/groovy/stacks
/opt/ros/groovy/stacks/robot_model_tutorials
/opt/ros/groovy/stacks/robot_model_tutorials/urdf_tutorial
/opt/ros/groovy/stacks/robot_model_tutorials/urdf_tutorial/r2d2.xacro
/opt/ros/groovy/stacks/robot_model_tutorials/urdf_tutorial/06-flexible.urdf
/opt/ros/groovy/stacks/robot_model_tutorials/urdf_tutorial/bin
/opt/ros/groovy/stacks/robot_model_tutorials/urdf_tutorial/08-macroed.urdf.xacro
/opt/ros/groovy/stacks/robot_model_tutorials/urdf_tutorial/mainpage.dox
/opt/ros/groovy/stacks/robot_model_tutorials/urdf_tutorial/03-origins.urdf
/opt/ros/groovy/stacks/robot_model_tutorials/urdf_tutorial/manifest.xml
...bunch o files
/opt/ros/groovy/stacks/robot_model_tutorials/urdf_tutorial/urdf.vcg
/opt/ros/groovy/stacks/robot_model_tutorials/urdf_tutorial/04-materials.urdf
/opt/ros/groovy/stacks/robot_model_tutorials/urdf_tutorial/images
/opt/ros/groovy/stacks/robot_model_tutorials/urdf_tutorial/images/visual.png
/opt/ros/groovy/stacks/robot_model_tutorials/urdf_tutorial/images/materials.png
/opt/ros/groovy/stacks/robot_model_tutorials/urdf_tutorial/images/origins.png
/opt/ros/groovy/stacks/robot_model_tutorials/urdf_tutorial/images/flexible.png
/opt/ros/groovy/stacks/robot_model_tutorials/urdf_tutorial/images/multipleshapes.png
/opt/ros/groovy/stacks/robot_model_tutorials/urdf_tutorial/images/myfirst.png
/opt/ros/groovy/stacks/robot_model_tutorials/urdf_tutorial/xacrodisplay.launch
/opt/ros/groovy/stacks/robot_model_tutorials/urdf_tutorial/02-multipleshapes.urdf
/opt/ros/groovy/stacks/robot_model_tutorials/urdf_tutorial/lib
/opt/ros/groovy/stacks/robot_model_tutorials/urdf_tutorial/07-physics.urdf
/opt/ros/groovy/stacks/robot_model_tutorials/urdf_tutorial/Makefile
/opt/ros/groovy/stacks/robot_model_tutorials/urdf_tutorial/ROS_NOBUILD
/opt/ros/groovy/stacks/robot_model_tutorials/urdf_tutorial/05-visual.urdf
/opt/ros/groovy/stacks/robot_model_tutorials/urdf_tutorial/display.launch
/opt/ros/groovy/stacks/robot_model_tutorials/urdf_tutorial/01-myfirst.urdf
/opt/ros/groovy/stacks/robot_model_tutorials/urdf_tutorial/CMakeLists.txt
/opt/ros/groovy/stacks/robot_model_tutorials/urdf_tutorial/gazebo.launch
/opt/ros/groovy/stacks/robot_model_tutorials/.hgtags
/opt/ros/groovy/stacks/robot_model_tutorials/stack.xml
/opt/ros/groovy/stacks/robot_model_tutorials/Makefile
/opt/ros/groovy/stacks/robot_model_tutorials/CMakeLists.txt
/usr
/usr/share
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/ros-groovy-robot-model-tutorials
/usr/share/doc/ros-groovy-robot-model-tutorials/changelog.Debian.gz
...bunch o files, but now .rviz