How To Install python3-catkin on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-catkin
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is python3-catkin
python3-catkin is:
Catkin contains CMake macros that are useful in the development of ROS-related systems. In ROS (Robot OS) Fuerte and later, many of the lower-level libraries are being migrated to be CMake only.
This package contains the Python 3 module.
There are three methods to install python3-catkin
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install python3-catkin Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install python3-catkin
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python3-catkin
Install python3-catkin Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python3-catkin
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python3-catkin
Install python3-catkin 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 python3-catkin
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python3-catkin
How To Uninstall python3-catkin on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the python3-catkin
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python3-catkin
Uninstall python3-catkin And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python3-catkin
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python3-catkin
Remove python3-catkin Configurations and Data
To remove python3-catkin
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python3-catkin
Remove python3-catkin configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python3-catkin
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python3-catkin
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-catkin
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.