rosdep does not find dist

Question

I set up rosdep(init, update) and trying to install python-certifi. And I allways get the error:

root@ros-in-docker:/project# rosdep install python-certifi

ERROR: Rosdep cannot find all required resources to answer your query
Missing resource python-certifi
ROS path [0]=/opt/ros/kinetic/share/ros
ROS path [1]=/project/src
ROS path [2]=/opt/ros/kinetic/shar

But it seems to be in the list for Ubuntu Xenial:

https://github.com/ros/rosdistro/blob/master/rosdep/python.yaml#L870

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Originally posted by julian-r on ROS Answers with karma: 1 on 2019-07-26

Post score: 0

Answer 1

Afaik rosdep only installs the dependencies of ROS packages. You cannot use it to install dependencies themselves. python-certifi is not a ROS package.

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Originally posted by gvdhoorn with karma: 86574 on 2019-07-28

This answer was ACCEPTED on the original site

Post score: 1

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Original comments

Comment by julian-r on 2019-07-29:
Hmm, but this states it differently...

Comment by tfoote on 2019-07-29:
That's a reference to the xml format used for ros packages and doesn't reflect the command line syntax.