No module named 'manipulation'

Question

I am using Ubuntu 22.04 LTS via WSL and working on Python 3.10. When I try to run Drake tutorials locally with python3 -m pydrake.tutorials I get the following error: ERROR: the Jupyter notebook runtime is not installed! which is not the case since I already installed jupyter-notebook using sudo apt-get install jupyter-notebook and can easily open a jupyter notebook myself when typing jupyter notebook.

Additionally, I tried to copy-paste and run the following code from a tutorial:

import pydot
from IPython.display import HTML, SVG, display
from pydrake.all import (AddMultibodyPlantSceneGraph, DiagramBuilder,
                         FindResourceOrThrow, GenerateHtml,
                         InverseDynamicsController, MeshcatVisualizer,
                         MeshcatVisualizerParams, MultibodyPlant, Parser,
                         Simulator, StartMeshcat)
from manipulation import running_as_notebook

and i get the following error:

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'manipulation'

It seems as I don't have a module called manipulation except the one inside pydrake library. Is this a version issue? I desired to mention it in case the two errors are interconnected.

Russ Tedrake · Answer

None of the tutorials in Drake import anything from manipulation. The manipulation textbook repository examples absolutely do. You can find more about those here: https://manipulation.csail.mit.edu/drake.html .

No module named 'manipulation'

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