How To Install python-wstool on Debian 10

Learn how to install python-wstool on Debian 10 with this tutorial. python-wstool is Commands to manage multi-VCS repositories (for Robot OS) Python 2

Introduction

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

What is python-wstool

python-wstool is:

This package is part of Robot OS (ROS). It provides commands to manage several local VCS repositories based on a single workspace definition file (.rosinstall). Git, Mercurial, Subversion, and Bazaar are supported.

wstool replaces the rosws tool for catkin workspaces. As catkin workspaces create their own setup file and environment, wstool is reduced to version control functions only. So wstool does not have a “regenerate” command, and does not allow adding non-version controlled elements to workspaces. In all other respects, it behaves the same as rosws.

This package installs the library for Python 2.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python-wstool

Install python-wstool Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install python-wstool

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

sudo aptitude -y install python-wstool

How To Uninstall python-wstool on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove python-wstool

Uninstall python-wstool And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-wstool

Remove python-wstool Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge python-wstool

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

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

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

Dependencies

python-wstool have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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