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Okay, I got a solution. Basically you have to install the tools outside of apt-get. Specifically, this page was helpful...I have to put the link in a code block and obscure it partly because this website says that my karma isn't high enough to post links...

ros.org/doc/independent/api/rosinstall/html/rosws_tutorial.html#prerequisites

Where what you'll want to do is:

$ sudo apt-get install python-pip

$ sudo pip install -U rosinstall

Note that if you had an older version installed you will need to remove some files, as specified on the website I provided. E.g.,

$ sudo rm -rf /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/rosinstall-0.5*

Seems to work then.