I cannot convert xacro file to urdf

Question

Hello,

I have an issue about broadcasting some links at tf for which I have asked here. Someone commented that he solved my issue from converting the xacro file to a urdf one. How can I do that?

I have searched for the issue in questions like here and here and when I type:

rosrun xacro xacro.py rover_ws/src/labrob/labrob_description/urdf/labrob.urdf

or

rosrun xacro xacro.py 'rover_ws/src/labrob/labrob_description/urdf/labrob.urdf'

I get an error like the following:

xacro: Traditional processing is deprecated. Switch to --inorder processing!
To check for compatibility of your document, use option --check-order.
For more infos, see http://wiki.ros.org/xacro#Processing_Order
No such file or directory: rover_ws/src/labrob/labrob_description/urdf/labrob.urdf
XacroException('No such file or directory: rover_ws/src/labrob/labrob_description/urdf/labrob.urdf',)

The directory is the correct one I am writting here, I don't know what I am doing wrong. Could you please help me?

Thanks for your answers and time in advance,

Chris

PS: I am in ROS Kinetic

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Originally posted by patrchri on ROS Answers with karma: 354 on 2017-01-01

Post score: 0

Answer 1

did you try it with an absolute path?

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Originally posted by NEngelhard with karma: 3519 on 2017-01-01

This answer was ACCEPTED on the original site

Post score: 1

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Original comments

Comment by patrchri on 2017-01-01:
Thank you the command worked with the absolute path...if you would like add this as an answer to accept it...Your suggestion at my other question didn't work though with the converted urdf...I still get a wrong tree.