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Hi,

I'm using Ubuntu 16.04 LTS with ROS Kinetic. I'm trying to install the packages necesaries to use the turtleBot3 simulator. I'm following this tutorial: link text. In this link they say that: "This instruction was tested on Ubuntu 16.04 and ROS Kinetic Kame"

And I can't install some packages like joy, navigation, teleop-twist-joy, etc. Because it gives me an error like:

E: Unable to locate package ros-kinetic-joy

Someone knows why?

I tried: sudo apt-get update and then

sudo apt-get install ros-kinetic-joy ros-kinetic-teleop-twist-joy ros-kinetic-teleop-twist-keyboard ros-kinetic-laser-proc ros-kinetic-rgbd-launch ros-kinetic-depthimage-to-laserscan ros-kinetic-rosserial-arduino ros-kinetic-rosserial-python ros-kinetic-rosserial-server ros-kinetic-rosserial-client ros-kinetic-rosserial-msgs ros-kinetic-amcl ros-kinetic-map-server ros-kinetic-move-base ros-kinetic-urdf ros-kinetic-xacro ros-kinetic-compressed-image-transport ros-kinetic-rqt-image-view ros-kinetic-gmapping ros-kinetic-navigation

Asked by Cooper1993 on 2017-07-23 11:34:43 UTC

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Do you have you apt sources set up for ROS? Have you installed any other ROS packages?

Asked by ahendrix on 2017-07-23 11:51:42 UTC

I think that yes... For example, I can install ros-kinetic-ros-tutorials and the other packages that I find in apt-cache search ros-kinetic, but I can't find (using search) those packages that I want to install...

Asked by Cooper1993 on 2017-07-23 18:25:32 UTC

any updates on this? i kinda have the same problem

Asked by HenryZh47 on 2017-10-14 13:58:37 UTC

Same problem here. All details to my question are here. Also followed the suggestions from this question to update the ROS repo but it didn't work. Any ideas?

Asked by flyingROS on 2017-10-26 14:14:37 UTC

@flyingROS: you forgot to mention that you're on ARMv7. Are the packages you want to install actually released and being built for that platform?

Asked by gvdhoorn on 2017-10-26 14:22:28 UTC

I'm trying to install mavros and in the readme it says that there are binary packages for armhf (ARMv7). Tried to install from source. How can I find out if source installation is possible for my platform?

Asked by flyingROS on 2017-10-26 14:30:43 UTC

According to status_page/ros_kinetic_uxhf.html?q=mavros and status_page/ros_kinetic_uxv8.html?q=mavros there are indeed binaries, so if apt can't ..

Asked by gvdhoorn on 2017-10-26 14:35:51 UTC

.. find them, I would suspect a system configuration issue.

Are you running Xenial or Jessie? And for the right cpu arch?

Asked by gvdhoorn on 2017-10-26 14:37:04 UTC

I'm running Jessie. Got the image for Raspberry Pi here. I assume it should work on Raspberry Pi 3 as it was built for it. How could I approach the system configuration issue? Reinstall ROS?

Asked by flyingROS on 2017-10-26 14:53:23 UTC

The status links show that Kinetic binaries on ARM are only available for Ubuntu Xenial hf and v8 (ARMv8). For Jessie only v8 pkgs are being built. You seem to be running a 32bit kernel, which identifies as ARMv7. It would seem there are no binaries for your platform.

Asked by gvdhoorn on 2017-10-26 14:58:06 UTC

See also the OS/platform matrix on the Kinetic installation page, under Select Your Platform, and the Jenkins Jobs section in the Package Links box on the right of wiki/mavros.

Asked by gvdhoorn on 2017-10-26 14:59:07 UTC

Btw: this would've probably deserved its own question, rather than piggy-backing this one.

Asked by gvdhoorn on 2017-10-26 15:00:35 UTC

Okay, thank you for the hint! Do you have a suggestion what might be my best bet to get ROS with mavros running on the Raspberry Pi 3?

Asked by flyingROS on 2017-10-26 15:01:12 UTC

I thought it would have been a duplicate...

Asked by flyingROS on 2017-10-26 15:03:18 UTC

I have no experience with RPis, but it would seem installing Debian Jessie for ARMv8 should allow you to install binaries provided by the farm.

Again: no experience with RPis, so I could well be leading you into all sorts of other trouble.

Asked by gvdhoorn on 2017-10-26 15:03:48 UTC

Okay, thank you for your help though!

Asked by flyingROS on 2017-10-26 15:09:38 UTC

I have the same problem, how did you solve this?

Asked by engineerdream on 2018-03-09 16:28:38 UTC

I'm not using Raspbian anymore but switched to Ubuntu Mate for Raspberry Pi (https://ubuntu-mate.org/raspberry-pi/). There the installation of everything worked without major roadblocks. Hope that helps.

Asked by flyingROS on 2018-03-09 17:11:13 UTC

I am having the problem on the laptop, using ubuntu Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS Release: 16.04 Codename: xenial

rosversion -d kinetic

trying to install turtlebot3 burger software, e.g. sudo apt-get install ros-kinetic-navigation

Asked by engineerdream on 2018-03-09 17:32:31 UTC

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