Install ROSJava/Knowrob on Kinetic

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Hi Helpers,

I have been attempting to install all kinds of packages and most of them fail either because they don´t exist on kinetic or they don´t build from source because I don´t have the rosjava_build_tools to complete the catkin build process (on Ubuntu 16.04).

So, even though I have no reason for java, apparently I need it to build anything else from source.

I have tried to install it but have found no method that works. Any ideas?

Thanks,

-Todd

============ Update after comments (and reinstallation of kinetic) ===========

Okay, it looks like they got the ros-desktop-base installation finally working for kinetic. In fact, they finally got the installation for roslisp_repl working. So, part of my issue was handled just by waiting. But that still leaves this issue of catkin depending on rosjava and the rosjava_build_tools. I thought it would come along with the desktop install but it didn´t. What is the process I´m using to install rosjava? There is no process available to install from source or otherwise on kinetic on xenial.

todd@ubuntu:~/rosjava$ rosdep install --from-paths src -i -y
ERROR: the following packages/stacks could not have their rosdep keys resolved
to system dependencies:
rosjava_build_tools: No definition of [ant] for OS version [xenial]

In fact, even the apt-get installation of rosjava indigo doesn´t exist anymore. As I implied before, I don´t see why they even released kinetic if the build system isn´t even functional yet. For the time being, I´m trying to find a person knowledgeable with knowrob to see if I can get around this.