No such file or directory: /opt/ros/melodic/share/franka_description/robots/panda/panda.urdf.xacro [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/opt/ros/melodic/share/franka_description/robots/panda/panda.urdf.xacro'

[lostgab]

Finished getting started on ROS at http://docs.ros.org/en/melodic/api/moveit_tutorials/html/doc/getting_started/getting_started.html then tried to do move it but got this error instead, anybody can help? The tutorial on ROS is not very good for begineers

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[rhaschke]

Looks like you missed to install package dependencies as stated in the Getting Started tutorial:

cd ~/ws_moveit/src
rosdep install -y --from-paths . --ignore-src --rosdistro melodic

Particularly, you are missing franka_description: sudo apt install ros-melodic-franka-description