How To Install python-rosservice on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install python-rosservice on Debian 9. python-rosservice is Command-line tool for listing and querying Robot OS services

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install python-rosservice on Debian 9.

What is python-rosservice

python-rosservice is:

This package is part of Robot OS (ROS). rosservice contains the rosservice command-line tool for listing and querying ROS services. It also contains a Python library for retrieving information about services and dynamically invoking them. The Python library is experimental and is for internal-use only.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python-rosservice

Install python-rosservice Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install python-rosservice

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

sudo aptitude -y install python-rosservice

How To Uninstall python-rosservice on Debian 9

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

sudo apt-get remove python-rosservice

Uninstall python-rosservice And Its Dependencies

To uninstall python-rosservice and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-rosservice

Remove python-rosservice Configurations and Data

To remove python-rosservice configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge python-rosservice

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

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

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

Dependencies

python-rosservice have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install python-rosservice package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.