How To Install catkin-tools on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install catkin-tools on Debian 12.
What is catkin-tools
catkin-tools is:
This package is part of ROS, the Robot Operating System. The catkin tools provide functionality to work with the catkin meta buildsystem and catkin workspaces, similar to the way the colcon tools support working with ROS 2 ament packages.
The catkin tools provide a convenient interface to build and test multiple packages in a catkin workspace, resolving all inter-dependencies and isolating the builds from each other.
This package installs the Python 3 module and the CLI executable.
There are three methods to install catkin-tools on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install catkin-tools Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install catkin-tools using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install catkin-tools
Install catkin-tools Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install catkin-tools using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install catkin-tools
Install catkin-tools 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 catkin-tools using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install catkin-tools
How To Uninstall catkin-tools on Debian 12
To uninstall only the catkin-tools package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove catkin-tools
Uninstall catkin-tools And Its Dependencies
To uninstall catkin-tools and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove catkin-tools
Remove catkin-tools Configurations and Data
To remove catkin-tools configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge catkin-tools
Remove catkin-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove catkin-tools configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge catkin-tools
Dependencies
catkin-tools have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install catkin-tools package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.