How To Install python-rosinstall-generator on Debian 10

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

Introduction

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

What is python-rosinstall-generator

python-rosinstall-generator is:

This package is part of Robot OS (ROS). It contains a tool to generate rosinstall files which contain information about repositories with ROS packages/stacks. It always returns information about released packages - either to the gbp repositories for wet packages or to the tarball of dry stacks from the SVN release repository.

This package installs the library for Python 2.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python-rosinstall-generator

Install python-rosinstall-generator Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install python-rosinstall-generator

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

sudo aptitude -y install python-rosinstall-generator

How To Uninstall python-rosinstall-generator on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove python-rosinstall-generator

Uninstall python-rosinstall-generator And Its Dependencies

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

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

Remove python-rosinstall-generator Configurations and Data

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

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

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

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

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

Dependencies

python-rosinstall-generator have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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