How To Install python-rosinstall on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-rosinstall on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is python-rosinstall
python-rosinstall is:
This package is part of Robot OS (ROS). The rosinstall package provides a Python API for interacting with a source code workspace as well as a group of command line tools. Rosinstall leverages the vcstools package for source control and stores its state in rosinstall files.
Using rosinstall you can update several folders using a variety of SCMs (SVN, Mercurial, git, Bazaar) with just one command.
This package installs the library for Python 2.
There are three methods to install python-rosinstall 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 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 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python-rosinstall
Install python-rosinstall Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python-rosinstall using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python-rosinstall
Install python-rosinstall 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 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python-rosinstall
How To Uninstall python-rosinstall on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the python-rosinstall package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python-rosinstall
Uninstall python-rosinstall And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python-rosinstall 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
Remove python-rosinstall Configurations and Data
To remove python-rosinstall configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python-rosinstall
Remove python-rosinstall configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python-rosinstall configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-rosinstall
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-rosinstall package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
