How To Install python3-rosinstall on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-rosinstall on Ubuntu 18.04.
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 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 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 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-rosinstall using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python3-rosinstall
How To Uninstall python3-rosinstall on Ubuntu 18.04
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 Ubuntu 18.04, 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 Ubuntu 18.04 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
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-rosinstall package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
