How To Install python-vcstools on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-vcstools on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is python-vcstools
python-vcstools is:
This package is part of Robot OS (ROS). The vcstools module provides a Python API for interacting with different version control systems (VCS/SCMs). The VcsClient class provides an API for seamlessly interacting with Git, Mercurial (Hg), Bzr and SVN. The focus of the API is manipulating on-disk checkouts of source-controlled trees.
This package installs the library for Python 2.
There are three methods to install python-vcstools 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-vcstools 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-vcstools using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python-vcstools
Install python-vcstools Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python-vcstools using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python-vcstools
Install python-vcstools 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-vcstools using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python-vcstools
How To Uninstall python-vcstools on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the python-vcstools package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python-vcstools
Uninstall python-vcstools And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python-vcstools and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-vcstools
Remove python-vcstools Configurations and Data
To remove python-vcstools configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python-vcstools
Remove python-vcstools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python-vcstools configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-vcstools
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-vcstools package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
