ROS kinetic arch linux installation

Question

I am trying to install ROS kinetic from this AUR package:https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ros-kinetic-desktop-full/

However,I am getting thie following errors:

Using Yay:

> Error: Could not find all required packages:
    pkg-config>=0.28 (Wanted by: ros-kinetic-desktop-full -> ros-kinetic-simulators -> ros-kinetic-gazebo-ros-pkgs -> ros-kinetic-gazebo-plugins -> ros-kinetic-gazebo-dev -> gazebo -> ignition-fuel_tools -> ignition-msgs)

Using Pikaur:

Version mismatch:
ignition-msgs depends on: 'pkg-config'
 found in 'PackageSource.REPO': '{'pkg-config': '1.5.2-1'}'

eschwartz eschwartz · Accepted Answer · 2018-07-27T05:49:22

This is why versioned dependencies in Arch Linux are ugly. The pkg-config package no longer exists, since Arch has transitioned to using the pkgconf implementation. However, even though pkgconf declares a virtual "provides" for pkg-config, in order to ease the transition, this provides is not versioned and therefore breaks the dependency resolution for the "ignition-msgs" package.

As a separate matter, it is completely wrong for any package to have a make dependency on either pkgconf or pkg-config, since whichever one Arch Linux uses has always been in the "base-devel" group which is required for running makepkg and is assumed always available.

t;dr "ignition-msgs" is broken because the AUR maintainer is bad at packaging, see the comments on the package details.

ROS kinetic arch linux installation

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