How To Install librosbag2d on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install librosbag2d on Debian 9. librosbag2d is Library for recording from and playing back to Robot OS topics

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install librosbag2d on Debian 9.

What is librosbag2d

librosbag2d is:

This package is part of Robot OS (ROS). It is the rosbag library, which provides APIs for reading/writing bags (ROS message stores) in C++ and Python. It is intended to be high performance and avoids deserialization and reserialization of the messages.

The related rosbag package provides a command-line tool for working with bags.

There are three methods to install librosbag2d 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 librosbag2d Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install librosbag2d using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install librosbag2d

Install librosbag2d Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install librosbag2d using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install librosbag2d

Install librosbag2d 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 librosbag2d using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install librosbag2d

How To Uninstall librosbag2d on Debian 9

To uninstall only the librosbag2d package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove librosbag2d

Uninstall librosbag2d And Its Dependencies

To uninstall librosbag2d and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove librosbag2d

Remove librosbag2d Configurations and Data

To remove librosbag2d configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge librosbag2d

Remove librosbag2d configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove librosbag2d configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge librosbag2d

Dependencies

librosbag2d have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install librosbag2d package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.