I cannot install Ros to my computer

Hi, i am trying to install Ros to my computer. I am doing everything the steps say at Ros basics course, 14-appendix. But when i enter “sudo apt-get install ros-kinetic-desktop-full” to my terminal it says
"
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
ros-kinetic-desktop-full : Depends: ros-kinetic-simulators but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
"
What shall i do?

@husamcahit what version of linux are you using? Try following this installation guide:
http://wiki.ros.org/melodic/Installation/Ubuntu

@bayodesegun Perhaps this appendix needs updating.

Hi @husamcahit,

The error you are getting suggests that something is wrong the the sources list of your linux machine or vm:

  • Are you using the expected version of Ubuntu (16?).
  • Have you setup the sources list.
  • Have you run sudo apt-get update?

@simon.steinmann91 what do you suggest we update in that appendix, based on what you have seen? Thanks.

Didn’t you switch to melodic? The install instructions should be updated then.

No, we didn’t. We are still on Kinetic for this course (and most other courses except the ROS2 course).
You can run the following to confirm the ROS distro in use:

env | grep ROS