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PS: I'm using Anaconda Distribution for managing python package

please try removing Anaconda from your PATH and see whether roscore can start then.

Most likely the rospkg module installed by apt is installed for the system Python and is not found by Anaconda.

That is why it then can't call rosversion.

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