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Error with installing additional package

asked 2019-03-30 16:46:27 -0500

GlebCom

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Hi all )))

Sorry, if my question have been repeated but I haven't found the solution( I was trying to install gmapping package but the error was.

I wrote this

sudo apt-get install ros-melodic-gmapping

and I got this

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package ros-melodic-gmappin

Why did the package not be installed?

Thank you very much))))

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answered 2019-03-31 02:29:52 -0500

gvdhoorn
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updated 2019-03-31 05:10:14 -0500

gmapping has not been released into Melodic, so that's why you can't install it using apt-get.

See #q303253, #q296170 and wiki/slam_gmapping. Notice how the wiki page has no version button for melodic. The status page for Melodic also doesn't show any gmapping packages (meaning it hasn't been released).

As far as I understand there are also no plans to release it for Melodic. I can't find a reference, but I believe the idea is that other packages (such as Google's Cartographer) are much more powerful and feature complete, or at least much better maintained.

If you really want/need gmapping on Melodic, you could attempt a from-source build.

You may refer to #q300480 for a workflow that resulted in a successful build at the time the answer was written.

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