How To Install librospack-dev on Debian 10

Learn how to install librospack-dev on Debian 10 with this tutorial. librospack-dev is Robot OS package information library header files

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install librospack-dev on Debian 10.

What is librospack-dev

librospack-dev is:

This package is part of Robot OS (ROS). rospack is a command-line tool for retrieving information about ROS packages available on the filesystem. It implements a wide variety of commands ranging from locating ROS packages in the filesystem, through listing available stacks, to calculating the dependency tree of stacks. It is also used in the ROS build system for calculating build information for packages.

This package contains the development files for the library.

There are three methods to install librospack-dev on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install librospack-dev Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install librospack-dev using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install librospack-dev

Install librospack-dev Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install librospack-dev using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install librospack-dev

Install librospack-dev Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install librospack-dev using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install librospack-dev

How To Uninstall librospack-dev on Debian 10

To uninstall only the librospack-dev package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove librospack-dev

Uninstall librospack-dev And Its Dependencies

To uninstall librospack-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove librospack-dev

Remove librospack-dev Configurations and Data

To remove librospack-dev configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge librospack-dev

Remove librospack-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove librospack-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge librospack-dev

Dependencies

librospack-dev have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install librospack-dev package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.