How To Install joint-state-publisher-gui on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install joint-state-publisher-gui
on Debian 11.
What is joint-state-publisher-gui
joint-state-publisher-gui is:
This package contains a tool for setting and publishing joint state values for a given URDF. It publishes sensor_msgs/JointState messages for a robot. The package reads the robot_description parameter, finds all of the non-fixed joints and publishes a JointState message with all those joints defined.
It can be used in conjunction with the robot_state_publisher node to also publish transforms for all joint states.
This package contains the Qt GUI
There are three methods to install joint-state-publisher-gui
on Debian 11. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install joint-state-publisher-gui Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install joint-state-publisher-gui
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install joint-state-publisher-gui
Install joint-state-publisher-gui Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install joint-state-publisher-gui
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install joint-state-publisher-gui
Install joint-state-publisher-gui 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 joint-state-publisher-gui
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install joint-state-publisher-gui
How To Uninstall joint-state-publisher-gui on Debian 11
To uninstall only the joint-state-publisher-gui
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove joint-state-publisher-gui
Uninstall joint-state-publisher-gui And Its Dependencies
To uninstall joint-state-publisher-gui
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove joint-state-publisher-gui
Remove joint-state-publisher-gui Configurations and Data
To remove joint-state-publisher-gui
configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge joint-state-publisher-gui
Remove joint-state-publisher-gui configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove joint-state-publisher-gui
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge joint-state-publisher-gui
Dependencies
joint-state-publisher-gui have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install joint-state-publisher-gui
package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.