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Op had a source install of Indigo on Ubuntu Xenial that appeared to be missing (at least) the fetch_description package, which caused the problem.

Based on the work done in fetchrobotics/fetch_gazebo#15, it appeared that installing the Fetch packages on Kinetic is now actually possible, so OP opted for that.

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