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I have recently installed Ubuntu version 16.04 and trying to install ROS kinetic on my laptop. However, I got stuck at this point where after running sudo apt-get update.

This is the result:

Err:1 http://packages.ros.org.ros/ubuntu xenial InRelease
  Could not resolve 'packages.ros.org.ros'
Hit:2 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease              
Hit:3 http://id.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit:4 http://id.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease
Hit:5 http://id.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease
Reading package lists... Done
W: Failed to fetch http://packages.ros.org.ros/ubuntu/dists/xenial/InRelease  Could not resolve 'packages.ros.org.ros'
W: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

I have searched for a solution online for quite awhile now, but still cannot seem to solve the issue.

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    If I open those links in a browser, I get 'site cannot be reached'. I don't know what the site is, or why you added it, but did you verify it's still there? or should it have been http://packages.ros.org/ros/ ?? (that works, and does support xenial/16.04) – guiverc Jun 22 '19 at 2:22
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I suspect you have made a typo

replace your http://packages.ros.org.ros/ubuntu with http://packages.ros.org/ros/ubuntu/

as that actually gives me Oregon State University's Open Source Lab, which is I suspect what you're after.

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  • Hello, thank you so much! However, after the correction Err:1 packages.ros.org.ros/ubuntu xenial InRelease Could not resolve 'packages.ros.org.ros' . . (Get some extra ...) . Fetched 5.223 kB in 7s (674 kB/s) Reading package lists... Done W: Failed to fetch packages.ros.org.ros/ubuntu/dists/xenial/InRelease Could not resolve 'packages.ros.org.ros' W: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead. Still not able to fetch the files. I am so sorry. – Dr Drill Jun 22 '19 at 15:03
  • Please add additional information to your question, and leave me a comment to look there (formatting options are limited & detail hard to read in comments; we can help you to correct formatting in questions & answers). The error message contains the same wrong/typo packages.ros.org.ros link which needs correction to packages.ros.org/ros/ubuntu as mentioned. You possibly didn't save your correction? – guiverc Jun 22 '19 at 22:18
  • Thank you so much. Yes, indeed the correction was not saved. It worked. Thank you so much. – Dr Drill Jun 23 '19 at 3:24

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