How To Install python-rosbag on Debian 10

Learn how to install python-rosbag on Debian 10 with this tutorial. python-rosbag is Python 2 tools for recording from and playing back to Robot OS topics

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install python-rosbag on Debian 10.

What is python-rosbag

python-rosbag is:

This package is part of Robot OS (ROS). It provides a command-line tool for working with bags (ROS messages stores). The corresponding librosbag package provides corresponding C++ and Python APIs.

This package contains the Python 2 library.

There are three methods to install python-rosbag on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install python-rosbag Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install python-rosbag

Install python-rosbag Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install python-rosbag

Install python-rosbag 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 python-rosbag using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install python-rosbag

How To Uninstall python-rosbag on Debian 10

To uninstall only the python-rosbag package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove python-rosbag

Uninstall python-rosbag And Its Dependencies

To uninstall python-rosbag and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-rosbag

Remove python-rosbag Configurations and Data

To remove python-rosbag configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge python-rosbag

Remove python-rosbag configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-rosbag

Dependencies

python-rosbag have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install python-rosbag package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.