How To Install python-roswtf on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-roswtf on Debian 10.
What is python-roswtf
python-roswtf is:
This package is part of Robot OS (ROS). roswtf looks for many, many things, and the list is always growing. There are two categories of things that it looks for: file-system issues and online/graph issues.
For file-system issues, roswtf looks at your environment variables, package configurations, stack configurations, and more. It can also take in a roslaunch file and attempt to find any potential configuration issues in it, such as packages that haven’t been built properly.
For online issues, roswtf examines the state of your current graph and tries to find any potential issues. These issues might be unresponsive nodes, missing connections between nodes, or potential machine-configuration issues with roslaunch.
This package contains the Python 2 library.
There are three methods to install python-roswtf 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-roswtf 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-roswtf using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python-roswtf
Install python-roswtf Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python-roswtf using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python-roswtf
Install python-roswtf 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-roswtf using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python-roswtf
How To Uninstall python-roswtf on Debian 10
To uninstall only the python-roswtf package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python-roswtf
Uninstall python-roswtf And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python-roswtf and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-roswtf
Remove python-roswtf Configurations and Data
To remove python-roswtf configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python-roswtf
Remove python-roswtf configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python-roswtf configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-roswtf
Dependencies
python-roswtf have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-roswtf package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.