check_urdf command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

check_urdf: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: check_urdf: command not found

Solutions to check_urdf: command not found

How To Fix check_urdf: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu check_urdf is provided by liburdfdom-tools package.

liburdfdom-tools is:

The URDF (U-Robot Description Format) library provides core data structures and a simple XML parsers for populating the class data structures from an URDF file.

This package contains additional tools.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install liburdfdom-tools

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install liburdfdom-tools.

sudo apt -y install liburdfdom-tools

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install liburdfdom-tools

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix check_urdf command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.