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I am attempting to install ROS for NXT Diamondback on my Ubuntu 16.04. Is this even possible?

No, unfortunately not.

When I get to step 1.6, apt-get cannot find the package:

daniel@beepboop:~/Downloads$ sudo apt-get install ros-diamondback-nxtall

which makes sense, as only ROS Kinetic is supported on Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial).

The NXT stacks are rather old, and I remember various people making various efforts to port them to newer versions of ROS. Some related links:

There appear to be various forks of the original NXT packages on Github, perhaps some of those work on newer ROS versions. I have no personal experience with any of those, so you'll have to test them out.

I am attempting to install ROS for NXT Diamondback on my Ubuntu 16.04. Is this even possible?

No, unfortunately not.not (at least not the 'vanilla' version of the NXT packages).

When I get to step 1.6, apt-get cannot find the package:

daniel@beepboop:~/Downloads$ sudo apt-get install ros-diamondback-nxtall

which makes sense, as only ROS Kinetic is supported on Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial).

The NXT stacks are rather old, and I remember various people making various efforts to port them to newer versions of ROS. Some related links:

There appear to be various forks of the original NXT packages on Github, perhaps some of those work on newer ROS versions. I have no personal experience with any of those, so you'll have to test them out.