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First, I tried installing it with
sudo apt-get install ros-melodic-desktop-fullbut that didn't work because it wasn't found. Following the suggestion of an online post, I switched to installing it from source.
I would strongly recommend to not install from sources. Especially not under WSL. It's very slow, and you'll spend way too much time managing your installation.
A binary installation is almost always preferred over building things from sources.
desktop_full has been released into Melodic (see status_page/ros_melodic_default.html?q=full fi), so if you couldn't install that, I'm wondering whether you setup your system correctly.
Please figure out whether you have a need for installing ROS from sources, and if you don't, I would revert whatever you already have done and we should try to figure out why sudo apt install ros-melodic-desktop-full didn't work for you, not start a source install and diagnosing problems with that.
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First, I tried installing it with
sudo apt-get install ros-melodic-desktop-fullbut that didn't work because it wasn't found. Following the suggestion of an online post, I switched to installing it from source.
I would strongly recommend to not install from sources. Especially not under WSL. It's very slow, and you'll spend way too much time managing your installation.
A binary installation is almost always preferred over building things from sources.
desktop_full has been released into Melodic (see status_page/ros_melodic_default.html?q=full fi), so if you couldn't install that, I'm wondering whether you setup your system correctly.
Please figure out whether you have a need for installing ROS from sources, and if you don't, I would revert whatever you already have done and we should try to figure out why sudo apt install ros-melodic-desktop-full didn't work for you, not start a source install and diagnosing problems with that.
Edit: just noticed this:
I tried the command
sudo apt-get update, but that didn't work initially due to a key not being available
If the key also wasn't available the first time you tried sudo apt-get install ros-melodic-desktop-full, then that was the reason why apt couldn't find the package.
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