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ROS on Ubuntu Loki, Elementary OS. Problem installing

asked 2017-10-11 10:10:40 -0500

Supratim gravatar image

updated 2017-10-11 10:21:18 -0500

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The message looks like the following

W: The repository 'http://packages.ros.org/ros/ubuntu loki Release' does not have a Release file.
N: Data from such a repository can't be authenticated and is therefore potentially dangerous to use.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.
E: Failed to fetch http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/xenial-updates/universe/binary-amd64/by-hash/SHA256/db842801ebf6a595ffdef380db19d15a14119f4cf3e9fb7fa26951854def60c1  Hash Sum mismatch
E: Failed to fetch http://packages.ros.org/ros/ubuntu/dists/loki/main/binary-amd64/Packages  404  Not Found [IP: 140.211.166.134 80]
E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
supratim@Floyd:~$ sudo apt-get install ros-kinetic-desktop-full
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package ros-kinetic-desktop-full
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answered 2017-10-11 10:26:31 -0500

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updated 2017-10-11 10:29:34 -0500

Afaik, Ubuntu Loki is not an actual Ubuntu release. It's a release of Elementary OS.

The ROS buildfarm does not build any packages for Elementary OS specifically, so that's why apt cannot download a Release file for it.

To install ROS on Elementary OS Loki (which is based on Ubuntu Xenial (16.04)), you could try two things:

  1. change loki to xenial in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ros-latest.list
  2. override OS detection in all ROS tools by setting the environment variable ROS_OS_OVERRIDE to ubuntu:16.04:xenial (see wiki/EnvironmentVariables - ROS_OS_OVERRIDE for more info).

After fixing point 1, you can try to apt-get update again and see whether your packages will install.

With 2, tools like rosdep should work.

Note that as Elementary OS is not an officially supported distribution, you could run into compatibility issues. But the only way to know is to try it.


See #q40081 for a related question btw.

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