ROS Jade on Ubuntu 14.04 E: Unable to locate package ros-jade-desktop-full

asked 2015-10-04 12:48:56 -0600

JohnnyQ
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updated 2015-10-05 11:50:26 -0600

gvdhoorn
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I do these steps... I have Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty installed on a MAC PPC working perfect.

Made sure all Ubuntu repositories are correct.. Main, Restricted, Universe & Multiverse
sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://packages.ros.org/ros/ubuntu $(lsb_release -sc) main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ros-latest.list'
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-key 0xB01FA116
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ros-jade-desktop-full

This is where I get stuck with the error:

E: Unable to locate package ros-jade-desktop-full

I actually went to the "repository" directory packages.ros.org and as I browse all the folders, I ask myself. Why do I not see a package called ros-jade-desktop-full .. are they in a different location specified by the DBs that I find in the repository?.. or maybe I am missing something I overlooked. I am a moderate Linux user and I don't believe I missed something, but I am new to ROS so maybe I did.

Can anyone help me to ID the issue?

answered 2015-10-05 11:09:27 -0600

gvdhoorn
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updated 2015-10-05 11:15:31 -0600

I have Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty installed on a MAC PPC working perfect.

This is the reason why you can't install ROS using the debian packages: there are no binary builds available for ROS on the PowerPC architecture (and I doubt there ever will be). Only x86, x64 and ARM-hf are currently built by the buildfarm, and for those architectures you can use the installation instructions on the wiki.

I can't actually find any explicit documentation on this (rep-3 fi doesn't mention any architectures), so it might be worthwhile to raise this issue on the ros/rep issue tracker and / or send a mail to ros-users about this.

I'm not at all certain whether it would work, but you could try to see whether a from source install works. Seeing as not many packages have been run or tested on PPC recently, I would expect at least some difficulty getting things to work.

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I understand.. well I will build an Ubuntu install on a PC Tower and go from there. I don't have too much time to waste on figuring out if they will consider an install for PPC so I will do the other.. and that way its all fresh and new. thanks

JohnnyQ ( 2015-10-05 11:16:57 -0600 )edit

I wanted to add that its is strange that it won't install on an alredy working version of ubuntu on a ppc.. but oh well..

JohnnyQ ( 2015-10-05 11:27:48 -0600 )edit

[..] if they will consider an install for PPC so I will do the other [..]

I did not suggest you ask for OSRF to start building PPC binaries, I suggested reporting the issue because the documentation should explicitly state which architectures are supported, so we avoid users getting confused.

gvdhoorn ( 2015-10-05 11:47:48 -0600 )edit

I wanted to add that its is strange that it won't install on an alredy working version of ubuntu on a ppc..

It's not strange: Ubuntu and ROS are two completely distinct pieces of software. Canonical apparently has PPC builds of Trusty. OSRF does not do PPC builds of ROS. There is no relation.

gvdhoorn ( 2015-10-05 11:48:47 -0600 )edit

Oh I did not mean due to relation, but in regards to it working under a PPC environment. But no biggie.. you have been a great help and I do appreciate it very much.. thanks again.. peace.

JohnnyQ ( 2015-10-05 12:56:49 -0600 )edit

Question not answered anymore?

gvdhoorn ( 2015-10-07 02:42:49 -0600 )edit

Sorry.. I had taken it out till I got an answer about the binaries. They will not make binaries for PPC so I am marking this as answered. Thanks.

JohnnyQ ( 2015-10-11 09:11:29 -0600 )edit

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