Installing ROS Indigo on Mint 17

Mint 17 is based on Ubuntu trusty and hence you can follow the instruction given below to install ROS-Indigo:

http://answers.ros.org/question/190177/how-to-install-ros-indigo-in-ubuntu-1404-trusty-64-bit/

However, you need to make slight change in the name of repository to be added to your sources.list. The summary of instruction is as follows:


$ sudo sh -c '. /etc/lsb-release && echo "deb http://mirror.umd.edu/packages.ros.org/ros/ubuntu trusty main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ros-latest.list' 

$ wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ros/rosdistro/master/ros.key -O - | sudo apt-key add - 

$ sudo apt-get update 

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

Basically replace $DISTRIB_CODENAME by 'trusty'. It is because the $DISTRIB_CODENAME for mint 17 is 'qiana' for which its 404 error. 

APT-GET behind Proxy Server, BADSIG GPG Error or Mergelist problem

All these problems are related with your proxy settings.  I could not solve them either.  In this post, I am trying to collect all the solutions that have been suggested by others:

Common Error:

W: GPG error: http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty Release: The following signatures were invalid: BADSIG 40976EAF437D05B5 Ubuntu Archive Automatic Signing Key

The usual solution that works for me sometimes is as follows:

$ sudo rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
$ sudo apt-get update or
$ sudo apt-get update -o Acquire::BrokenProxy=True

You can ignore warnings and gpg errors. However, attempting to obtain the key does not work for me.


$ sudo apt-key adv --keyserver-options http-proxy=http://login:password@proxy.server.com:8080/ --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 40976EAF437D05B5

Executing: gpg --ignore-time-conflict --no-options --no-default-keyring --homedir /tmp/tmp.eXfoRdf3Dx --no-auto-check-trustdb --trust-model always --keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg --primary-keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg --keyserver-options http-proxy=http://xxxxx:yyyyy@proxy.server.com:8080/ --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 40976EAF437D05B5
gpg: requesting key 437D05B5 from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com
gpg: keyserver timed out
gpg: keyserver receive failed: keyserver error

Many have suggested to use the following command. This does not help either.

$ sudo apt-get update -o Acquire::BrokenProxy=True -o Acquire::http::No-Cache=True

Note that these problems do not arise if you are directly connected to the internet.

APT Behind Proxy Server Ubuntu 12.04

This worked for me on Ubuntu 12.04


Create a new file as shown below:

$ sudo gvim  /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/02http-proxy

and enter the following line:

Acquire::http::Proxy "http://username:password@proxy.tcs.com:8080";



Save the file and run

$ sudo apt-get update 

It should work for you.

One more thing, if your password contains '@' character, then you need to replace it with '%40' in your password.