How To Install python3-rosinstall on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-rosinstall on Kali Linux. python3-rosinstall is Installer for Robot OS (Python 3)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-rosinstall on Kali Linux.

What is python3-rosinstall

python3-rosinstall is:

This package is part of Robot OS (ROS). The rosinstall package provides a Python API for interacting with a source code workspace as well as a group of command line tools. Rosinstall leverages the vcstools package for source control and stores its state in rosinstall files.

Using rosinstall you can update several folders using a variety of SCMs (SVN, Mercurial, git, Bazaar) with just one command.

This package installs the library for Python 3.

There are three methods to install python3-rosinstall on Kali Linux. 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-rosinstall 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-rosinstall using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install python3-rosinstall

Install python3-rosinstall Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install python3-rosinstall using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install python3-rosinstall

Install python3-rosinstall Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install python3-rosinstall using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install python3-rosinstall

How To Uninstall python3-rosinstall on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the python3-rosinstall package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove python3-rosinstall

Uninstall python3-rosinstall And Its Dependencies

To uninstall python3-rosinstall and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove python3-rosinstall

Remove python3-rosinstall Configurations and Data

To remove python3-rosinstall configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge python3-rosinstall

Remove python3-rosinstall configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove python3-rosinstall configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python3-rosinstall

Dependencies

python3-rosinstall have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-rosinstall package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.