http://wiki.ros.org/kinetic/Installation/Ubuntu

Hello!

• In the context of Kinetics and the Ubuntu packages located at the above link, I am trying to follow the package installation steps on to an A72-based (ARMv8 aarch64) SoC in the above like and I get as far as ->

1.4 Installation

# sudo apt-get install ros-kinetic-ros-base

**************** initramfs-tools install error **************
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.122ubuntu8.1) ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.4.0-31-generic
W: mdadm: /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf defines no arrays.
W: mkconf: MD subsystem is not loaded, thus I cannot scan for arrays.
W: mdadm: failed to auto-generate temporary mdadm.conf file.
Unsupported platform.
run-parts: /etc/initramfs/post-update.d//flash-kernel exited with return code 1
dpkg: error processing package initramfs-tools (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu3) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:**
 initramfs-tools
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
******************************************************************

root@ubuntu:~# uname -a
Linux ubuntu 4.1.8+g0a32d65 #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Jul 17 22:57:57 CST 2016 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux
root@ubuntu:~#

root@ubuntu:~# lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS
Release:        16.04
Codename:       xenial
root@ubuntu:~#

any reason why I am getting this error?

Thanks, Mark