How To Install python3-rospy on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is python3-rospy

python3-rospy is:

This package is part of Robot OS (ROS). The rospy client API enables Python programmers to quickly interface with ROS topics, services, and parameters. The design of rospy favors implementation speed (i.e. developer time) over runtime performance so that algorithms can be quickly prototyped and tested within ROS. It is also ideal for non-critical-path code, such as configuration and initialization code. Many of the ROS tools are written in rospy to take advantage of the type introspection capabilities.

Many of the ROS tools, such as rostopic and rosservice, are built on top of rospy.

This package contains the Python 3 library.

There are three methods to install python3-rospy 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-rospy 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-rospy using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install python3-rospy

Install python3-rospy Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install python3-rospy

Install python3-rospy 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-rospy using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install python3-rospy

How To Uninstall python3-rospy on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove python3-rospy

Uninstall python3-rospy And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove python3-rospy

Remove python3-rospy Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge python3-rospy

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

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

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

Dependencies

python3-rospy have the following dependencies:

• python3

References

• python3-rospy website

Summary

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