How To Install python-laser-geometry on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-laser-geometry
on Debian 9.
What is python-laser-geometry
python-laser-geometry is:
This package is part of Robot OS (ROS). It contains a class for converting from a 2D laser scan as defined by sensor_msgs/LaserScan into a point cloud as defined by sensor_msgs/PointCloud or sensor_msgs/PointCloud2. In particular, it contains functionality to account for the skew resulting from moving robots or tilting laser scanners.
This package contains the Python bindings.
There are three methods to install python-laser-geometry
on Debian 9. 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-laser-geometry 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-laser-geometry
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python-laser-geometry
Install python-laser-geometry Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python-laser-geometry
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python-laser-geometry
Install python-laser-geometry 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 python-laser-geometry
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python-laser-geometry
How To Uninstall python-laser-geometry on Debian 9
To uninstall only the python-laser-geometry
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python-laser-geometry
Uninstall python-laser-geometry And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python-laser-geometry
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-laser-geometry
Remove python-laser-geometry Configurations and Data
To remove python-laser-geometry
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python-laser-geometry
Remove python-laser-geometry configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python-laser-geometry
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-laser-geometry
Dependencies
python-laser-geometry have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-laser-geometry
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.