Error launching Gmapping node on ROS

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Hi,

I am using ROS kinetic on ubuntu 16 and have installed the binaries for openslam and slam_gmapping using the command

sudo apt-get install ros-kinetic-slam-gmapping and sudo apt-get install ros-kinetic-openslam-gmapping.

However, whenever I am trying to use the gmapping node with ROS, it always throws the following error

ERROR: cannot launch node of type [gmapping/slam_gmapping]: can't locate node [slam_gmapping] in package [gmapping]

I am unable to figure out how do I solve this problem. My environment variables are properly defined in the bashrc.

Thanks

Edit 1:

dpkg -l | grep gmapping 

dpkg -l | grep gmapping
ii  ros-kinetic-gmapping                         1.3.10-0xenial-20181117-012312-0800                        amd64        This package contains a ROS wrapper for OpenSlam's Gmapping.
ii  ros-kinetic-openslam-gmapping                0.1.2-0xenial-20180809-134859-0800                         amd64        ROS-ified version of gmapping SLAM.
ii  ros-kinetic-slam-gmapping                    1.3.10-0xenial-20181117-032709-0800                        amd64        slam_gmapping contains a wrapper around gmapping which provides SLAM capabilities.

Edit 2:

My environment is set as follows: all binary packages installed in

/opt/ros/kinetic/share

and my custom package are inside

~/catkin_ws/src

the last two lines in my bashrc contains the following lines:

source /opt/ros/kinetic/setup.bash
source /home/arav/catkin_ws/devel/setup.bash

The gmapping works when i do source /opt/ros/kinetic/setup.bash. and rosrun gmapping slam_gmapping But my gmapping.launch is inside the catkin_ws, so when I source ~/catkin_ws/devel/setup.bash or source ~/.bashrc, the gmapping does not work ad gives the ERROR.

Edit 3:

Following @gvdhoorn's advice I cleaned my catkin_ws workspace by removing devel and build folders and catkin_make again. This partially solved the problem of finding the slam_gmapping node. However, I am getting a new error now. P.S. gmapping still does not work.

process[gmapping-2]: started with pid [23549]
/opt/ros/kinetic/lib/gmapping/slam_gmapping: symbol lookup error: /opt/ros/kinetic/lib/gmapping/slam_gmapping: undefined symbol: _ZN8GMapping14sampleGaussianEdj
[gmapping-2] process has died [pid 23549, exit code 127, cmd /opt/ros/kinetic/lib/gmapping/slam_gmapping __name:=gmapping __log:=/home/arav/.ros/log/f518ac08-ff53-11e8-a0af-a0d3c148ec01/gmapping-2.log].
log file: /home/arav/.ros/log/f518ac08-ff53-11e8-a0af-a0d3c148ec01/gmapping-2*.log