How To Install polled-camera-tool on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install polled-camera-tool on Debian 9. polled-camera-tool is Robot OS polled_camera package tool

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install polled-camera-tool on Debian 9.

What is polled-camera-tool

polled-camera-tool is:

This package is part of Robot OS (ROS). It contains an executable implementing a polled camera driver node and to request images from it. The package is currently for internal use as the API is still under development.

There are three methods to install polled-camera-tool 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 polled-camera-tool Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install polled-camera-tool

Install polled-camera-tool Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install polled-camera-tool using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install polled-camera-tool

Install polled-camera-tool 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 polled-camera-tool using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install polled-camera-tool

How To Uninstall polled-camera-tool on Debian 9

To uninstall only the polled-camera-tool package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove polled-camera-tool

Uninstall polled-camera-tool And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove polled-camera-tool

Remove polled-camera-tool Configurations and Data

To remove polled-camera-tool configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge polled-camera-tool

Remove polled-camera-tool configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove polled-camera-tool configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge polled-camera-tool

Dependencies

polled-camera-tool have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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