How To Install python-rosinstall on Debian 10

Learn how to install python-rosinstall on Debian 10 with this tutorial. python-rosinstall is Installer for Robot OS (Python 2)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install python-rosinstall on Debian 10.

What is python-rosinstall

python-rosinstall is:

This package is part of Robot OS (ROS). The rosinstall package provides a Python API for interacting with a source code workspace as well as a group of command line tools. Rosinstall leverages the vcstools package for source control and stores its state in rosinstall files.

Using rosinstall you can update several folders using a variety of SCMs (SVN, Mercurial, git, Bazaar) with just one command.

This package installs the library for Python 2.

There are three methods to install python-rosinstall 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 python-rosinstall 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-rosinstall using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install python-rosinstall

Install python-rosinstall Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install python-rosinstall

Install python-rosinstall 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-rosinstall using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install python-rosinstall

How To Uninstall python-rosinstall on Debian 10

To uninstall only the python-rosinstall package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove python-rosinstall

Uninstall python-rosinstall And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-rosinstall

Remove python-rosinstall Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge python-rosinstall

Remove python-rosinstall configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-rosinstall

Dependencies

python-rosinstall have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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