How To Install librosbag3d on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install librosbag3d on Ubuntu 18.04. librosbag3d is Library for recording from and playing back to Robot OS topics

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install librosbag3d on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is librosbag3d

librosbag3d 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 librosbag3d on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install librosbag3d Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install librosbag3d using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install librosbag3d

Install librosbag3d Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install librosbag3d using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install librosbag3d

Install librosbag3d 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install librosbag3d using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install librosbag3d

How To Uninstall librosbag3d on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the librosbag3d package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove librosbag3d

Uninstall librosbag3d And Its Dependencies

To uninstall librosbag3d and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove librosbag3d

Remove librosbag3d Configurations and Data

To remove librosbag3d configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge librosbag3d

Remove librosbag3d configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove librosbag3d configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge librosbag3d

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install librosbag3d package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.