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Your stacktrace shows that you have installed catkin_pkg for Python 3.5. The Debian package provided in the Xenial repository from ROS is using Python 2. So it looks like you have diverged from how you setup ROS on your machine.

You should uninstall catkin_pkg from /usr/local and follow the installation instructions: http://wiki.ros.org/kinetic/Installation/Ubuntu

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