Thanks to Mike Ferguson who pointed me to the ChangeList 
(http://www.ros.org/wiki/robot_model/ChangeList) on the ROS Wiki that 
allowed me to answer my own question--yes, the URDF package has been 
reorganized in Electric (beta) and check_urdf is now in urdf_parser.

--patrick

http://www.pirobot.org

On 07/21/2011 04:11 PM, Patrick Goebel wrote:
> I'm trying out Electric and it seems that check_urdf is now in the
> urdf_parser package rather than urdf?  So we run:
>
> $ rosrun urdf_parser check_urdf my_urdf.urdf
>
> instead of:
>
> $ rosrun urdf check_urdf my_urdf.urdf
>
> Just making sure that was intentional.
>
>
> Thanks!
> patrick
>
> On 07/19/2011 08:59 PM, Ken Conley wrote:
>> Announcement here:
>>
>> http://www.ros.org/news/2011/07/ros-electric-beta-now-available.html
>>
>>    -- your friendly neighborhood Electric sliders
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