E: unable to locate package ros-indigo-desktop-full

Question

I am getting the same error. I tried the 4 steps (http://wiki.ros.org/indigo/Installation/Ubuntu) and when I do :

sudo apt-get install ros-indigo-desktop-full

I get the error.

E: unable to locate package ros-indigo-desktop-full

When I check for the ros-latest.list, I get the following output:

....@ubuntu:~$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ros-latest.list 

deb http://packages.ros.org/ros/ubuntu vivid main

Let me know what might be going on.

I am running ubuntu 15.04 on vmware player

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Originally posted by tosandip on ROS Answers with karma: 35 on 2015-04-29

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Comment by inflo on 2015-04-29:
you have done sudo apt-get update ?

Comment by tosandip on 2015-04-29:
Yes that passes without any errors.

Answer 1

As mentioned in step 1.2 of the page you linked

Setup your computer to accept software from packages.ros.org. ROS Indigo ONLY supports Saucy (13.10) and Trusty (14.04) for debian packages.

That means if you are using 15.04, you will need to build ROS from source.

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Originally posted by jarvisschultz with karma: 9031 on 2015-04-29

This answer was ACCEPTED on the original site

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Original comments

Comment by tosandip on 2015-04-29:
Thanks for pointing this out. I am now trying to build ROS from source using the following link: http://wiki.ros.org/indigo/Installation/Source

This is failing at step 2.1.2

"could not have their rosdep keys resolved"

Comment by tosandip on 2015-04-29:
I think I am going to give up and install 14.04.2 which is supported.