How To Install python-angles on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-angles on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is python-angles
python-angles is:
This package is part of Robot OS (ROS). The utilities cover simple things like normalizing an angle and conversion between degrees and radians. But even if you’re trying to calculate things like the shortest angular distance between two joint space positions of your robot, but the joint motion is constrained by joint limits, this package is what you need. The code in this package is stable and well tested. There are no plans for major changes in the near future.
This package contains the Python binding.
There are three methods to install python-angles on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install python-angles Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install python-angles using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python-angles
Install python-angles Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python-angles using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python-angles
Install python-angles 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install python-angles using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python-angles
How To Uninstall python-angles on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the python-angles package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python-angles
Uninstall python-angles And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python-angles and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-angles
Remove python-angles Configurations and Data
To remove python-angles configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python-angles
Remove python-angles configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python-angles configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-angles
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-angles package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
