Hi Helpers,

I have been attempting to install all kinds of packages and most of them fail either because they don´t exist on kinetic or they don´t build from source because I don´t have the rosjavabuildtools to complete the catkin build process (on Ubuntu 16.04).

So, even though I have no reason for java, apparently I need it to build anything else from source.

I have tried to install it but have found no method that works. Any ideas?

Thanks,

-Todd

============ Update after comments (and reinstallation of kinetic) ===========

Okay, it looks like they got the ros-desktop-base installation finally working for kinetic. In fact, they finally got the installation for roslisprepl working. So, part of my issue was handled just by waiting. But that still leaves this issue of catkin depending on rosjava and the rosjavabuild_tools. I thought it would come along with the desktop install but it didn´t. What is the process I´m using to install rosjava? There is no process available to install from source or otherwise on kinetic on xenial.

todd@ubuntu:~/rosjava$ rosdep install --from-paths src -i -y
ERROR: the following packages/stacks could not have their rosdep keys resolved
to system dependencies:
rosjava_build_tools: No definition of [ant] for OS version [xenial]

In fact, even the apt-get installation of rosjava indigo doesn´t exist anymore. As I implied before, I don´t see why they even released kinetic if the build system isn´t even functional yet. For the time being, I´m trying to find a person knowledgeable with knowrob to see if I can get around this.