Install on Ubuntu 16.04 fails

Question

Hello-

I'm trying to install ros-desktop-full and have tried several times ending in the same error. There are dependency problems reported as --configure fails for several sub-components. Here is the first encountered:

sudo apt-get install ros-desktop-full

.....OK so far...numerous packages downloaded and installed...

Setting up ros-kinetic-pcl-msgs (0.2.0-0xenial-20161026-182630-0700) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of ros-kinetic-pcl-conversions:
 ros-kinetic-pcl-conversions depends on libpcl-dev; however:
  Package libpcl-dev is not configured yet.
 ros-kinetic-pcl-conversions depends on libpcl1.7; however:
  Package libpcl1.7 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package ros-kinetic-pcl-conversions (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured

....etc.

Then a string of similar failures where --configure fails

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Originally posted by thealy on ROS Answers with karma: 1 on 2017-01-23

Post score: 0

Answer 1

You appear to be mixing debian upstream packages ros-desktop-full with OSRF hosted packages ros-kinetic-pcl-msgs It is not recommended to mix those.

http://wiki.ros.org/UpstreamPackages

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Originally posted by tfoote with karma: 58457 on 2017-02-07

This answer was ACCEPTED on the original site

Post score: 1