sudo apt-get install ros-indigo-urdf-tutorial never completes
I run sudo apt-get install ros-indigo-urdf-tutorial
(I've tried installing desktop-full which gets to the urdf-tutorial and hits the same problem) and the get never seems to complete. Its like its downloading the same package again and again...
After a few hours, the console looks like this and I've downloaded 7.5 GBytes :
Get:14837 http://packages.ros.org/ros/ubuntu/ trusty/main ros-indigo-urdf-tutorial i386 0.2.4-0trusty-20160801-172840-0700 [490 kB]
Get:14838 http://packages.ros.org/ros/ubuntu/ trusty/main ros-indigo-urdf-tutorial i386 0.2.4-0trusty-20160801-172840-0700 [490 kB]
Get:14839 http://packages.ros.org/ros/ubuntu/ trusty/main ros-indigo-urdf-tutorial i386 0.2.4-0trusty-20160801-172840-0700 [490 kB]
Get:14840 http://packages.ros.org/ros/ubuntu/ trusty/main ros-indigo-urdf-tutorial i386 0.2.4-0trusty-20160801-172840-0700 [490 kB]
Get:14841 http://packages.ros.org/ros/ubuntu/ trusty/main ros-indigo-urdf-tutorial i386 0.2.4-0trusty-20160801-172840-0700 [490 kB]
Get:14842 http://packages.ros.org/ros/ubuntu/ trusty/main ros-indigo-urdf-tutorial i386 0.2.4-0trusty-20160801-172840-0700 [490 kB]
Get:14843 http://packages.ros.org/ros/ubuntu/ trusty/main ros-indigo-urdf-tutorial i386 0.2.4-0trusty-20160801-172840-0700 [490 kB]
Get:14844 http://packages.ros.org/ros/ubuntu/ trusty/main ros-indigo-urdf-tutorial i386 0.2.4-0trusty-20160801-172840-0700 [490 kB]
Get:14845 http://packages.ros.org/ros/ubuntu/ trusty/main ros-indigo-urdf-tutorial i386 0.2.4-0trusty-20160801-172840-0700 [490 kB]
Get:14846 http://packages.ros.org/ros/ubuntu/ trusty/main ros-indigo-urdf-tutorial i386 0.2.4-0trusty-20160801-172840-0700 [490 kB]
Get:14847 http://packages.ros.org/ros/ubuntu/ trusty/main ros-indigo-urdf-tutorial i386 0.2.4-0trusty-20160801-172840-0700 [490 kB]
Get:14848 http://packages.ros.org/ros/ubuntu/ trusty/main ros-indigo-urdf-tutorial i386 0.2.4-0trusty-20160801-172840-0700 [490 kB]
Get:14849 http://packages.ros.org/ros/ubuntu/ trusty/main ros-indigo-urdf-tutorial i386 0.2.4-0trusty-20160801-172840-0700 [490 kB]
Get:14850 http://packages.ros.org/ros/ubuntu/ trusty/main ros-indigo-urdf-tutorial i386 0.2.4-0trusty-20160801-172840-0700 [490 kB]
Get:14851 http://packages.ros.org/ros/ubuntu/ trusty/main ros-indigo-urdf-tutorial i386 0.2.4-0trusty-20160801-172840-0700 [490 kB]
Get:14852 http://packages.ros.org/ros/ubuntu/ trusty/main ros-indigo-urdf-tutorial i386 0.2.4-0trusty-20160801-172840-0700 [490 kB]
Get:14853 http://packages.ros.org/ros/ubuntu/ trusty/main ros-indigo-urdf-tutorial i386 0.2.4-0trusty-20160801-172840-0700 [490 kB]
Get:14854 http://packages.ros.org/ros/ubuntu/ trusty/main ros-indigo-urdf-tutorial i386 0.2.4-0trusty-20160801-172840-0700 [490 kB]
Get:14855 http://packages.ros.org/ros/ubuntu/ trusty/main ros-indigo-urdf-tutorial i386 0.2.4-0trusty-20160801-172840-0700 [490 kB]
Get:14856 http://packages.ros.org/ros/ubuntu/ trusty/main ros-indigo-urdf-tutorial i386 0.2.4-0trusty-20160801-172840-0700 [490 kB]
Get:14857 http://packages.ros.org/ros/ubuntu/ trusty/main ros-indigo-urdf-tutorial i386 0.2.4-0trusty-20160801-172840-0700 [490 kB]
Get:14858 http://packages.ros.org/ros/ubuntu/ trusty/main ros-indigo-urdf-tutorial i386 0.2.4-0trusty-20160801-172840-0700 [490 kB]
Get:14859 http://packages.ros.org/ros/ubuntu/ trusty/main ros-indigo-urdf-tutorial i386 0.2.4-0trusty-20160801-172840-0700 [490 kB]
Get:14860 http://packages.ros.org/ros/ubuntu/ trusty/main ros-indigo-urdf-tutorial i386 0.2.4-0trusty-20160801-172840-0700 [490 kB]
Get:14861 http://packages.ros.org/ros/ubuntu/ trusty/main ros-indigo-urdf-tutorial i386 0.2.4-0trusty-20160801-172840-0700 [490 kB]
Get:14862 http://packages.ros.org/ros/ubuntu/ trusty/main ros-indigo-urdf-tutorial i386 0.2.4-0trusty-20160801-172840-0700 [490 kB]
Get:14863 http://packages ...
That's definitely not normal. Two things:
sudo apt-get install ros-indigo-urdf-tutorial
(ie: which pkgs does it say it wants to install)?Also: here is something that seems similar. The proxy thing comes up in the answers there as well.