How To Install python-rosdistro on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-rosdistro
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is python-rosdistro
python-rosdistro is:
This package is part of Robot OS (ROS). The rosdistro tool allows you to get access to the full dependency tree and the vcs information of all packages and repositories.
rosdistro is a file format for managing ROS Distributions and the ROS stacks they contain. This file format is used as input to a variety of tools in the ROS build and release toolchain, from stack release tools to rosdoc. The rosdistro format has changed for Catkin-based repositories.
This package installs the library for Python 2.
There are three methods to install python-rosdistro
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 python-rosdistro 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-rosdistro
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python-rosdistro
Install python-rosdistro Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python-rosdistro
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python-rosdistro
Install python-rosdistro 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 python-rosdistro
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python-rosdistro
How To Uninstall python-rosdistro on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the python-rosdistro
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python-rosdistro
Uninstall python-rosdistro And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python-rosdistro
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-rosdistro
Remove python-rosdistro Configurations and Data
To remove python-rosdistro
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python-rosdistro
Remove python-rosdistro configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python-rosdistro
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-rosdistro
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-rosdistro
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.