How To Install python-rosservice on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-rosservice on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is python-rosservice
python-rosservice is:
This package is part of Robot OS (ROS). rosservice contains the rosservice command-line tool for listing and querying ROS services. It also contains a Python library for retrieving information about services and dynamically invoking them. The Python library is experimental and is for internal-use only.
There are three methods to install python-rosservice 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-rosservice 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-rosservice using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python-rosservice
Install python-rosservice Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python-rosservice using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python-rosservice
Install python-rosservice 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-rosservice using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python-rosservice
How To Uninstall python-rosservice on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the python-rosservice package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python-rosservice
Uninstall python-rosservice And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python-rosservice and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-rosservice
Remove python-rosservice Configurations and Data
To remove python-rosservice configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python-rosservice
Remove python-rosservice configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python-rosservice configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-rosservice
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-rosservice package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
