Error installing Ros Noetic in Debian Buster

Question

Hello everyone.

I am installing Ros Noetic in my Raspberry PI 4 with Debian Buster because the tutorial said that is fully supported. But when I try to execute the following commnad:

sudo apt install ros-noetic-desktop-full

The next error message is received:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package ros-noetic-desktop-full

I obtain the same error trying to install kinetic or melofic and I don't know what to do. I know that Noetic release is very recent, but if the tutorial is written it should work.

Thanks in advance.

Best regrets.

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Originally posted by Alessandro Melino on ROS Answers with karma: 113 on 2020-04-21

Post score: 1

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Original comments

Comment by Pourya on 2020-05-23:
Hello

Today is May 23 and Noetic is not released yet! Does anyone know the reason?

Comment by gvdhoorn on 2020-05-23:
Please don't post questions as answers. Either comment an existing answer, contribute your own answer if you have one, or post a new question.

I've converted your answer into a comment, but please keep it in mind for next time.

Comment by sloretz on 2020-05-23:
Following up; Noetic is now released https://www.openrobotics.org/blog/2020/5/23/noetic-ninjemys-the-last-official-ros-1-release

Comment by Dave_ROS on 2020-05-24:
Hi, I am all seeing this error (Attempting to install on Debian 10 Buster)

Answer 1

Edit (2020-05-23): as @sloretz wrote in his comment:

Following up; Noetic is now released https://www.openrobotics.org/blog/2020/5/23/noetic-ninjemys-the-last-official-ros-1-release

Note however:

I am installing Ros Noetic in my Raspberry PI 4 with Debian Buster

Only the amd64 and arm64 platforms get binary packages of ROS Noetic. armhf packages are not built by the ROS buildfarm.

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Original answer:

In addition to @RodBelaFarin's answer (which is correct), I would also add:

I am installing Ros Noetic in my Raspberry PI 4 with Debian Buster because the tutorial said that is fully supported.

There is still this notice at the top of the page under the Installation heading:

This seems to pretty clearly communicate that at least as of today (2020-04-21), there is a high probability of some packages still missing.

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Originally posted by gvdhoorn with karma: 86574 on 2020-04-21

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Comment by sloretz on 2020-04-21:
This is correct, ROS Noetic is not yet released. There are packages in the ros-testing repo for those who brave enough to try them before release, though desktop_full isn't ready yet.

sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://packages.ros.org/ros-testing/ubuntu $(lsb_release -sc) main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ros-testing.list'

Answer 2

From what I see here the desktop_full metapackage is not yet listed in the binary repos.

I guess you are really a bit too early and the documentation has just been released (probably before all debian binaries have been built?!).

My recommendation is to wait another 1-2 days and try it again.

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Originally posted by RodBelaFarin with karma: 235 on 2020-04-21

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Original comments

Comment by Alessandro Melino on 2020-04-21:
Okay, thank you for your quick response. I will wait a bit and then try again.

Comment by lsw on 2021-07-08:
I try to install ros-noetic-desktop-full package in PI4 whose OS is buster today, but I still get the same error as below: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done E: Unable to locate package ros-noetic-desktop-full

Comment by Alessandro Melino on 2021-07-09:
Hello. On Debian I achieved to make it work installing Raspberry Pi OS 64 bits. Try a fresh install and I hope it works for you.