How to fix ROS2 Could not find the resource 'joint_state_publisher_gui' on Ubuntu
Problem
While running or launching your ROS package, you see the following error message:
File "/opt/ros/jazzy/lib/python3.12/site-packages/ament_index_python/packages.py", line 60, in get_package_prefix
content, package_prefix = get_resource('packages', package_name)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/opt/ros/jazzy/lib/python3.12/site-packages/ament_index_python/resources.py", line 93, in get_resource
raise LookupError(
LookupError: Could not find the resource 'joint_state_publisher_gui' of type 'packages'
Solution
you need to install the joint-state-publisher-gui
package using apt
:
sudo apt -y install ros-jazzy-joint-state-publisher-gui
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