How To Install python-rosinstall-generator on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-rosinstall-generator on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is python-rosinstall-generator
python-rosinstall-generator is:
This package is part of Robot OS (ROS). It contains a tool to generate rosinstall files which contain information about repositories with ROS packages/stacks. It always returns information about released packages - either to the gbp repositories for wet packages or to the tarball of dry stacks from the SVN release repository.
This package installs the library for Python 2.
There are three methods to install python-rosinstall-generator 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-rosinstall-generator 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-rosinstall-generator using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python-rosinstall-generator
Install python-rosinstall-generator Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python-rosinstall-generator using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python-rosinstall-generator
Install python-rosinstall-generator 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-rosinstall-generator using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python-rosinstall-generator
How To Uninstall python-rosinstall-generator on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the python-rosinstall-generator package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python-rosinstall-generator
Uninstall python-rosinstall-generator And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python-rosinstall-generator and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-rosinstall-generator
Remove python-rosinstall-generator Configurations and Data
To remove python-rosinstall-generator configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python-rosinstall-generator
Remove python-rosinstall-generator configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python-rosinstall-generator configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-rosinstall-generator
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-rosinstall-generator package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
