初始化rosdep报错：pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: The ‘importlib_metadata‘ distribution was not found

背景：

在wmware上ubuntu18.04搭建ros环境

执行初始化：

在进行安装后，项目报错：

tiger@tiger-machine:~$ sudo rosdep init
[sudo] tiger 的密码： 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/rosdep", line 6, in <module>
    from pkg_resources import load_entry_point
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 3088, in <module>
    @_call_aside
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 3072, in _call_aside
    f(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 3101, in _initialize_master_working_set
    working_set = WorkingSet._build_master()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 574, in _build_master
    ws.require(__requires__)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 892, in require
    needed = self.resolve(parse_requirements(requirements))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 778, in resolve
    raise DistributionNotFound(req, requirers)
pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: The 'importlib_metadata' distribution was not found and is required by rosdep

原因：

该报错的意思是说项目缺少包：importlib_metadata，因此此处只需要安装该包，此处使用的是pyhon2环境

解决：

执行pip install importlib_metadata 安装该包