Failed to load plugin libgazebo_ros_control.so

Question

I've built gazebo 1.9 from source followed by hydro desktop full from source in Ubuntu 13.10 following the instructions but I'm getting these errors when trying to use my xacro/urdf files

Error [Plugin.hh:138] Failed to load plugin libgazebo_ros_control.so: libgazebo_ros_control.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

A few months ago I was able to do the same source install process and despite getting an error about apt: command [sudo apt-get install -y gazebo2] failed at the rosdep stage, the gazebo dependent packages built because I had correctly installed gazebo and pointed the right environmental variables at it. And all that .so was there (or was it?), everything worked fine (even without it?).

I git cloned ros_control, realtime_tools, and control_toolbox but still no success at generating the so. I'm not sure if those are actually needed here, but it some cursory research suggested they were, though on the earlier installs I never had to manually clone them (maybe rosdep did?).

Is there some other manual steps I need to do to get libgazebo_ros_control.so?

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Originally posted by lucasw on ROS Answers with karma: 8729 on 2014-04-25

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Answer 1

It might very well be the case that gazebo_ros_control is not available. If installed from binaries, you can check its presence with dpkg -l ros-hydro-ros-control. If building from source, try rospack find gazebo_ros_control.

Note that gazebo_ros_control lives in the gazebo_ros_pkgs repository, and not part of gazebo, ros_control or control_toolbox. The latter are some of its dependencies.

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Originally posted by Adolfo Rodriguez T with karma: 3907 on 2014-04-28

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Answer 2

This answer worked for me on Hydro.

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Originally posted by 130s with karma: 10937 on 2015-01-07

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