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Setting ROS_OS_OVERRIDE ought to be the easier solution. I would start by playing with that first.

You may need to use export ROS_OS_OVERRIDE=ubuntu:trusty instead of 14.04, because ROS uses the ubuntu release names to identify Ubuntu releases.

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