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foxy rosdep error on pop-os

asked 2020-07-13 16:28:40 -0500

firefox365 gravatar image

I am currently working on Pop-OS utilizing ros2 foxy. I am using the latest version of Pop-OS which is based off of ubuntu 20.04. I was working through the "Creating a workspace" portion of the tutorial without issue when I reached and error when I ran the following command in the dev_ws directory.

 rosdep install -i --from-path src --rosdistro foxy -y

Which produced the error:

ERROR: the following packages/stacks could not have their rosdep keys resolved to system dependencies: turtlesim: Unsupported OS [pop]

The closest I found to this issue is posted here. Where the user is running arch and the solution recommended is to run the following command:

rosdep install --from-paths ./robot_ws/src --ignore-src -r -y --os="arch:"

Which I changed to:

rosdep install --from-paths ./dev_ws/src --ignore-src -r -y --os="pop:"

and provided me the error

ERROR: the following packages/stacks could not have their rosdep keys resolved to system dependencies: turtlesim: Unsupported OS [pop] Continuing to install resolvable dependencies...

All required rosdeps installed successfully

I greatly appreciate any information someone can provide me with and any time taken to assist me. please let me know if more information is needed.

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Try --os="ubuntu:focal"?

robotsean gravatar image robotsean  ( 2020-07-14 02:35:38 -0500 )edit

So after using the change you recommended I got that all rosdeps installed successfully. But I still get the same error when I run:

rosdep install -i --from-path src --rosdistro foxy -y
firefox365 gravatar image firefox365  ( 2020-07-14 08:33:46 -0500 )edit

Use the same option --os="ubuntu:focal" if you see the error. I didn't install ros2 on pop, so I don't know whether you will encounter other problems.

robotsean gravatar image robotsean  ( 2020-07-14 15:40:44 -0500 )edit

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answered 2021-05-09 06:40:51 -0500

sanjo gravatar image

To solve this globally, simply change in /etc/os-release

ID=pop

for

ID=ubuntu

I have been working with pop_OS! and ROS for a while and never had an OS related error, so I think it is safe to change it.

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