Package cannot find nav_msgs even though its listed as a dependency? [closed]

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Hello, I am trying to run a ROS node for the ax2550 motor controller, found here:

https://github.com/wjwwood/ax2550

However, when I try to compile with catkin_make, I get the following error:

CMake Error at /opt/ros/hydro/share/genmsg/cmake/genmsg-extras.cmake:255 (message): Messages depends on unknown pkg: nav_msgs (Missing find_package(nav_msgs?)) Call Stack (most recent call first): ax2550/CMakeLists.txt:22 (generate_messages)

Everything I can find about this error online simply indicates that I need to specify nav_msgs as a dependency to my package, but it's already there:

<build_depend>nav_msgs</build_depend> <run_depend>nav_msgs</run_depend>

Any ideas as to what could br going wrong?

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Make sure that nav_msgs is installed, the following command should show the path to nav_msgs: rospack find nav_msgs

Martin Peris ( 2014-07-16 00:25:20 -0500 )edit

It is installed, and entering that command returns the correct path: /opt/ros/hydro/share/nav_msgs. Although maybe its possible that the node isn't looking for nav_msgs there--I don't know hot tell from the code or the error.

mysteriousmonkey29 ( 2014-07-16 11:15:31 -0500 )edit

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Tried that but it said it installed nothing new. Nav_msgs is already installed.

mysteriousmonkey29 ( 2014-07-16 11:13:36 -0500 )edit

This sounds like its an environment issue. Could you install ros-hydro-common-msgs from source and try recompiling? (with the ax550 and the nav_msgs in the same src directory). As well, please sudo rm -rf devel build inside your catkin_ws.

DevonW ( 2014-07-16 11:31:28 -0500 )edit

Reinstalling it from source in the same src directory did the trick. For anyone else with this problem, git clone https://github.com/ros/common_msgs And then catkin_make again. Thanks!

mysteriousmonkey29 ( 2014-07-16 12:37:57 -0500 )edit

It might have been only a matter of rebuilding the catking_ws. I would try to remove the source code for common_msgs that you just installed and rm -rf devel build inside your catking_ws, then catkin_make again and see what happens.

Martin Peris ( 2014-07-16 19:32:47 -0500 )edit

Tried that, but got the same error again; "messages depends on unknown package: nav_msgs"

mysteriousmonkey29 ( 2014-07-18 11:11:07 -0500 )edit

O_O Thanks for trying and posting back the result

Martin Peris ( 2014-07-19 06:14:59 -0500 )edit

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