Drake and 403 Forbidden for Russian requests

I started to put Drake in docker, not the one who is a singer, but for robots. [If you want just try drake, start with this article.]

The tutorial is pretty well written,

1. Install the docker:

wget https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/dists/xenial/pool/stable/amd64/docker-ce_17.03.1~ce-0~ubuntu-xenial_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i docker-ce_17.03.1~ce-0~ubuntu-xenial_amd64.deb
sudo systemctl start docker
sudo usermod -aG docker $(whoami)

# Log out and then back in.

2. Clone and setup repo (don’t forget to substitute YOUR_GITHUB_USERNAME):

git clone git@github.com:RobotLocomotion/drake.git
cd drake
git remote set-url origin git@github.com:YOUR_GITHUB_USERNAME/drake.git
git remote add upstream git@github.com:RobotLocomotion/drake.git
git remote set-url --push upstream no_push

3. Select the required dockerfile (with or without nvidia):

docker build -t drake -f setup/ubuntu/docker/xenial/Dockerfile.nvidia-cuda-8.0-devel-ubuntu16.04 .
docker run -it drake bash

And then, if you are from a country such as Russia, then you can see, for example:

E: Failed to fetch https://drake-apt.csail.mit.edu/bionic/dists/bionic/InRelease 403 Forbidden [IP: 13.35.253.12 443] 
E: The repository 'https://drake-apt.csail.mit.edu/bionic bionic InRelease' is not signed.

If you put the URL into the browser – it will become a little more clear, Amazon is good:

But not here it was 🙂 To solve, you can suffer to install vpn, from which I actually started, but you can solve the problem a little easier. Steps:

• Remove the addition of the MIT repo (comment it). This happens when you install the necessary dependencies, namely in drake/setup/ubuntu/source_disctribution/install_prereqs.sh line 28-30.

• Remove kcov-35 from the installed dependencies. It is necessary to delete it from the packages-*.txt files along the same path. The remaining packages are successfully located in the default packages. kcov is needed to assess the coverage of repository code tests – not the most important thing. In principle, it is on a github. Probably at MIT it was adapted a little bit, once offered to download from their repository.

PS. If you are reading this after the MIT repo has been added, first remove it or simply turn it off:

Now the installation and further build should go without problems. Unless at me at build the computer once hung – it was necessary to restart.