urdfdom binaries end up in ROS distro 'global bin'

[gavanderhoorn]

It seems that the changes in e27ac3b cause the binaries from the urdfdom package to end up in /opt/ros/hydro/bin, instead of where they were previously installed (/opt/ros/hydro/share/urdfdom?). This makes rosrun urdfdom .. fail with:

[rosrun] Couldn't find executable named check_urdf below /opt/ros/hydro/share/urdf

Was this intended? Then we should probably also update the tutorials.

[isucan]

@thomas-moulard Is it possible to update the installation location of the binaries? Or was this intended?

[gavanderhoorn]

See also urdfdom check_urdf on ROS Answers.

[thomas-moulard]

Sorry for the late answer.

For me, having these binaries in bin is the correct behavior. I think we should update the tutorials.

[gavanderhoorn]

This issue can probably be closed? Has the related documentation been updated?

[130s]

Added a minimal tutorial update for Hydro and Indigo. Related QA.

[jacquelinekay]

I added liburdfdom-tools as a dependency of the robot_model metapackage in indigo so that it does not have to be manually installed.

ros/robot_model@a48aa28

I believe this issue can be closed now.