ROS indigo Installation Dependency issue

asked 2018-12-11 23:31:58 -0500

rosusernli
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updated 2018-12-11 23:32:56 -0500

I am trying to install ROS Indigo in ubuntu 14.04.The link for installation is

http://wiki.ros.org/indigo/Installation/Ubuntu

When I give the following install command in my terminal

sudo apt-get install ros-indigo-desktop-full

the output messages i get is

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 python-rosdep : Depends: python-rosdistro (>= 0.4.0) but it is not going to be installed
 ros-indigo-desktop-full : Depends: ros-indigo-desktop but it is not going to be installed
                           Depends: ros-indigo-perception but it is not going to be installed
                           Depends: ros-indigo-simulators but it is not going to be installed
                           Depends: ros-indigo-urdf-tutorial but it is not going to be installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).

I tried

apt-get -f install

and got

E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13: Permission denied)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root?

So I tried with

sudo apt-get -f install

then i get an error

dpkg-deb: error: archive '/var/cache/apt/archives/python-rosdistro-modules_0.7.0-1_all.deb' has premature member 'control.tar.xz' before 'control.tar.gz', giving up
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/python-rosdistro-modules_0.7.0-1_all.deb (--unpack):
 subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2
dpkg-deb: error: archive '/var/cache/apt/archives/python-rosdistro_0.7.0-100_all.deb' has premature member 'control.tar.xz' before 'control.tar.gz', giving up
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/python-rosdistro_0.7.0-100_all.deb (--unpack):
 subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/python-rosdistro-modules_0.7.0-1_all.deb
 /var/cache/apt/archives/python-rosdistro_0.7.0-100_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

I tried sudo apt-get clean and sudo apt-get autoremove

I also tried several steps which i got from other forums

sudo rm -rf /var/lib/dpkg/updates/*
sudo rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
sudo rm /var/cache/apt/*.bin
sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo apt-get update
sudo dpkg --configure -a
sudo apt-get install -f

Nothing worked out.

Anybody have encountered or have an idea on how to solve this problem?

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has premature member 'control.tar.xz' before 'control.tar.gz', giving up

this seems to tell us that your dpkg is too old. Try running a sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade dpkg. Then try again.

gvdhoorn ( 2018-12-12 00:26:35 -0500 )edit

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answered 2018-12-12 00:27:28 -0500

gvdhoorn
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This could be a duplicate of #q299091.

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sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade dpkg gives

python-rosdep : Depends: python-rosdistro (>= 0.4.0) but it is not installed
E: Unmet dependencies

rosusernli ( 2018-12-12 06:20:22 -0500 )edit

It seems strange that an update of dpkg -- a base Debian package -- would result in errors about python-rosdep.

What is the general status of apt on your system?

Do you have "broken packages"?

gvdhoorn ( 2018-12-12 06:50:41 -0500 )edit

Thanks for the tip. It worked !!!

I removed the broken and residual packages using sudo apt-get remove --purge $(sudo dpkg -l | grep "^iU" | awk '{print $2}' | tr '\n' ' ') and dpkg --list |grep "^rc" | cut -d " " -f 3 | xargs sudo dpkg --purge

I was able to do the dpkg upgrade and install

rosusernli ( 2018-12-12 23:19:12 -0500 )edit

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answered 2019-02-18 00:07:09 -0500

imanpakii
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I tried all the solution on this page none of them worked, even the last one. the last comment from @gvdhoorn inspired me to searched for remove broken package manually and I found this link: http://www.iasptk.com/ubuntu-fix-brok... I went to This file with "root" and do:

sudo nano /var/lib/dpkg/status    (you can use vim or gedit instead of nano)

Locate the corrupt package, and remove the whole block of information about it and save the file.

in my case I find the ros-indigo-pckg and remove all of them as it described to the above link.

after that I do

sudo apt-get autoremove -f

and after that

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install dpkg

and then I start over the ROS -indigo installation tutorial.

and everything get fixed.

another easier solution is if you are able to install ubuntu again, and start fresh, before install the

sudo apt-get install ros-indigo-desktop-full

do this:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install dpkg

Thank you Iman

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