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Thanks for the comments. @gvdhoorn, not using the host network takes away my ability to X11 Forward (which I'm dependen

<sheepish grin=""> changing '--os=ubuntu:melodic' to '--os=ubuntu:bionic' seemed to do it. Thanks for catching

I have a Ubuntu 18.04 docker image/container with ROS melodic and Gazebo 9 installed. When I try to run from the console within the docker container,

source devel/setup.bash && \
    rosdep fix-permissions && \
    rosdep update && \
    rosdep install --from-paths src --ignore-src -r --rosdistro=${ROS_DISTRO} -y --os=ubuntu:melodic

rosdep complains with,

[some package]: No definition of [gazebo] for OS version [melodic]

for a handful of packages.

I can successfully launch gazebo and load models but for some reason the 'rosdep install' step is failing to find gazebo.

Any ideas why?

how to make ROS truly containerized in Docker? I have a linux server that multiple developers access for development whe

No definition of [gazebo] for OS version [melodic] I have a Ubuntu 18.04 docker image/container with ROS melodic and Gaz

No definition of [gazebo] for OS version [melodic] I have a Ubuntu 18.04 docker image/container with ROS melodic and Gaz

My organization is not currently using ROS but I am intrigued. I've proposed the idea of us using ROS and the pragmatists inevitably ask, "what's the value of switching to ROS?"

I have some thoughts/ideas on this but am not yet skilled in ROS. So, I thought I'd throw the question out to you the experts,

Why is ROS so great?

I get a very similar result when running on a new install of ROS. I ran,

roslaunch gazebo_worlds empty_world.launch

and got,

Msg Connected to gazebo master @ http://localhost:11345
X Error of failed request:  BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
  Major opcode of failed request:  159 (GLX)
  Minor opcode of failed request:  5 (X_GLXMakeCurrent)
  Serial number of failed request:  19
  Current serial number in output stream:  19
Error [Transport.cc:102] Unable to get topic namespaces in [50] tries.
Error [Node.cc:68] No namespace found
/opt/ros/fuerte/stacks/simulator_gazebo/gazebo/scripts/gui: line 2:  2144 Segmentation fault      `rospack find gazebo`/gazebo/bin/gzclient -g `rospack find gazebo`/lib/libgazebo_ros_paths_plugin.so
[gazebo_gui-3] process has died [pid 2141, exit code 139, cmd /opt/ros/fuerte/stacks/simulator_gazebo/gazebo/scripts/gui __name:=gazebo_gui __log:=/home/jhays/.ros/log/6adeeafa-1d43-11e2-a747-842b2bbf9746/gazebo_gui-3.log].
log file: /home/jhays/.ros/log/6adeeafa-1d43-11e2-a747-842b2bbf9746/gazebo_gui-3*.log