How To Install python-rospkg on Debian 10

Learn how to install python-rospkg on Debian 10 with this tutorial. python-rospkg is Robot OS package library (Python 2)

Introduction

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

What is python-rospkg

python-rospkg is:

This package is part of Robot OS (ROS). It is a library for retrieving information about ROS packages and stacks. The rospkg Python module provides basic utilities for querying information about ROS packages, stacks, and distributions. There are several basic APIs: ROS environment, RosPack/RosStack, OS detection, and distributions.

This package installs the library for Python 2.

There are three methods to install python-rospkg 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-rospkg 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-rospkg using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install python-rospkg

Install python-rospkg Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install python-rospkg

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

sudo aptitude -y install python-rospkg

How To Uninstall python-rospkg on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove python-rospkg

Uninstall python-rospkg And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-rospkg

Remove python-rospkg Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge python-rospkg

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

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

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

Dependencies

python-rospkg have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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