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Import error catkin_pkg while importing rosbag, roslib and rospy

asked 2017-10-20 10:37:03 -0500

Ashutosh Mishra
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I am novice to ROS and I followed the ROS installation tutorial to install ROS kinetic. After installing, I open python to import rospy, roslib and rosbag, but it throws the following error:

import roslib
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/opt/ros/kinetic/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/roslib/__init__.py", line 54, in <module>
    import roslib.stacks
  File "/opt/ros/kinetic/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/roslib/stacks.py", line 46, in <module>
    import roslib.packages
  File "/opt/ros/kinetic/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/roslib/packages.py", line 49, in <module>
    from catkin.find_in_workspaces import find_in_workspaces as catkin_find
  File "/opt/ros/kinetic/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/catkin/find_in_workspaces.py", line 36, in <module>
    from catkin_pkg.packages import find_packages
ImportError: No module named catkin_pkg.packages

I again installed catkin_pkg using the following command but nothing happened:

  sudo apt-get install --reinstall python-catkin-pkg

Can anyone suggest me where I am going wrong?

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Please tell us how you installed ROS: using apt-get or building from sources, on which Linux distribution this is and which "ROS installation tutorial" you followed (link).

gvdhoorn ( 2017-10-20 10:44:03 -0500 )edit

Also: do you source /opt/ros/kinetic/setup.bash before starting the python interpreter?

gvdhoorn ( 2017-10-20 10:56:46 -0500 )edit

Yes I did source /opt/ros/kinetic/setup.bash and I followed the following link for installation: http://wiki.ros.org/kinetic/Installat...

Ashutosh Mishra ( 2017-10-20 11:15:17 -0500 )edit

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Please post the output of python -c "import catkin_pkg; print(catkin_pkg.__file__)".

Dirk Thomas ( 2017-10-20 11:22:05 -0500 )edit

Thanks a lot, this link helped me https://answers.ros.org/question/1264... , particularly installing pip install catkin_pkg

Ashutosh Mishra ( 2017-10-20 11:36:11 -0500 )edit

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answered 2017-10-20 11:47:16 -0500

Dirk Thomas
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As the comments on the referenced question mention you should not install catkin_pkg via pip. This is why you have the problem in the first place. And when the next version is released as a Debian package you will have the same problem again since your old pip package overlays the new Debian pkg.

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