Invalid <param> tag

[ShroyerL]

Description

While following the tutorial (moveit_tutorials/doc/quickstart_in_rviz/quickstart_in_rviz_tutorial.rst), running the following command in Step 1:

roslaunch panda_moveit_config demo.launch rviz_tutorial:=true

returns an "invalid tag" error "Cannot load command parameter [robot_description]

Your environment

• ROS Distro: Noetic
• OS Version: Windows 10
• Source or Binary build? Binary https://moveit.ros.org/install/

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[rhaschke]

Sorry, but I can't reproduce your error. Using standard debian packages, the command launches without errors.

[ShroyerL]

Is the issue that I am using windows? I thought that was the point of the moveit Windows download link I provided?

[rhaschke]

I missed the Windows thing. Using chocolatey is outdated. I recommend using ROS in WSL: https://github.com/rhaschke/lecture/wiki/WSL-install

[ShroyerL]

I have that installed already. When I try to use install ROS commands from your link, it says:

"E: The repository 'http://packages.ros.org/ros/ubuntu jammy Release' does not have a Release file." "E: Unable to locate package ros-noetic-desktop" "E: Unable to locate package ros-noetic-agni-tf-tools"

Trying to follow the ROS install instructions from https://wiki.ros.org/noetic/Installation/Ubuntu also yields errors about release files not being available.

[simonschmeisser]

You installed jammy/22.04 but ROS Noetic is only available for Ubuntu Focal/20.04

[rhaschke]

Follow these instructions to install ROS One on Ubuntu 22.04. Better, directly go for ROS 2 (if possible): https://docs.ros.org/en/rolling/Installation/Ubuntu-Install-Debians.html

[ShroyerL]

ok, I installed Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS and installed noetic. Everything looks good. In order to use Moveit, should I use noetic specific commands? https://moveit.ros.org/install/ talks about using melodic instead of noetic.

[rhaschke]

When asked to install packages, just replace melodic or noetic with one, which are the names of ROS distros. ROS one is based on noetic. Otherwise, everything should work as specified.

[simonschmeisser]

@rhaschke 's comment would be right for 22.04/Jammy/ROS one.

Since you did the downgrade to 20.04, which I'd recommend for beginners, please simply replace any mention of melodic with noetic. However I did not see any mention of melodic on the link you gave unless I select 18.04. Could you please be more specific where something is not up to date so we can fix it?

[ShroyerL]

@simonschmeisser, I was originally trying to use the 'Windows 10' tab (https://moveit.ros.org/install/) before I found out to use Ubuntu. It says melodic there.

[simonschmeisser]

all Noetic here for me

[ShroyerL]

@simonschmeisser, click the Windows 10 button at the top right of your pic.

[ShroyerL]

I got to the point of trying to launch moveit with:

roslaunch panda_moveit_config demo.launch rviz_tutorial:=true

It looks like the terminal is doing everything correctly, but no screen opens. Am I missing something?

[ShroyerL]

there's something wrong with rviz