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Unable to install ROS kinetic on Ubuntu 16.04

asked 2018-03-06 10:00:51 -0500

Nebula gravatar image

updated 2018-03-06 10:02:25 -0500

When I try to do full install

sudo apt-get install ros-kinetic-desktop-full

I am getting following errors:

Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 ros-kinetic-desktop-full : Depends: ros-kinetic-simulators but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
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Is still a clean Ubuntu installation? Or have you had ROS and / or Gazebo installed at some point in the past?

gvdhoorn gravatar image gvdhoorn  ( 2018-03-06 10:31:16 -0500 )edit

I have the similar error for python-catkin-dkpg when I call catkin_install. I previously installed it was using smoothly.

tolga-uni-lu gravatar image tolga-uni-lu  ( 2018-03-06 14:46:12 -0500 )edit

@tolga-uni-lu please create a new question for that problem

jayess gravatar image jayess  ( 2018-03-06 17:05:40 -0500 )edit

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answered 2018-03-06 16:43:10 -0500

try:

sudo apt install aptitude

then:

sudo aptitude install ros-kinetic-desktop-full

This will offer a solution, typically it means uninstalling some stuff to get the one you need, if the tradeoff seems ok to you go for it!

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