Tim, I think this type of question might be a better asked at <a href="http://answers.ros.org/questions/">http://answers.ros.org/questions/</a> in the future, but I would think that perhaps you lost rviz in the transition from Diamondback to Electric due to changes in the variant definitions?  <div>

<br></div><div>Another reason might be that the visualization packages got auto-removed due to some dependency mix up with Ubuntu&#39;s apt-get, this kind of thing happened to me during a distro upgrade (like from 10.10 to 11.04).</div>

<div><br></div><div>But honestly if you were to ask me hypothetically, I would say it shouldn&#39;t happen.  </div><div><br></div><div>A good thing to do might be to reinstall the desktop-full variant to ensure you have all the packages you need.<div>

<br></div><div>Hope that helps,</div><div><br></div><div>P.S. War Eagle!  It&#39;s good to see ROS has reached the Tennessee Valley! (I&#39;m from Decatur originally)</div><div><br clear="all">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br>

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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 7:31 PM, Tim Coddington <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:tim.coddington@rteamworks.com">tim.coddington@rteamworks.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">

I&#39;m running Ubuntu 11.04 on a Lenovo T520 laptop and last used rviz<br>
about two weeks ago.  After some initial confusion and troubleshooting I<br>
compared my install to another machine and found that the visualization<br>
package under ros electric install was missing.<br>
<br>
I have noticed a few ros electric updates listed during the Ubuntu<br>
Update manager runs, but I don&#39;t expect it to remove packages<br>
completely.<br>
<br>
Any idea how this could happen?<br>
<br>
<br>
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