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For the sake of your sanity, i'd recommend ROS Indigo with Ubuntu 14.04 for the very same reason you highlight in question i.e., many packages are not ready for the new distro.
I too am quite new to ROS environment and Linux...so can't really help you on how to use packages meant for indigo on jade.