How To Install python-roslib on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-roslib
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is python-roslib
python-roslib is:
This package is part of Robot OS (ROS). It provides base dependencies and support libraries for ROS. roslib contains many of the common data structures and tools that are shared across ROS client library implementations.
This package contains the Python library.
There are three methods to install python-roslib
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-roslib 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-roslib
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python-roslib
Install python-roslib Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python-roslib
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python-roslib
Install python-roslib 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-roslib
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python-roslib
How To Uninstall python-roslib on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the python-roslib
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python-roslib
Uninstall python-roslib And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python-roslib
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-roslib
Remove python-roslib Configurations and Data
To remove python-roslib
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python-roslib
Remove python-roslib configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python-roslib
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-roslib
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-roslib
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.