How To Install python3-roswtf on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is python3-roswtf

python3-roswtf is:

This package is part of Robot OS (ROS). roswtf looks for many, many things, and the list is always growing. There are two categories of things that it looks for: file-system issues and online/graph issues.

For file-system issues, roswtf looks at your environment variables, package configurations, stack configurations, and more. It can also take in a roslaunch file and attempt to find any potential configuration issues in it, such as packages that haven’t been built properly.

For online issues, roswtf examines the state of your current graph and tries to find any potential issues. These issues might be unresponsive nodes, missing connections between nodes, or potential machine-configuration issues with roslaunch.

This package contains the Python 3 library.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-roswtf

Install python3-roswtf Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install python3-roswtf

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

sudo aptitude -y install python3-roswtf

How To Uninstall python3-roswtf on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove python3-roswtf

Uninstall python3-roswtf And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove python3-roswtf

Remove python3-roswtf Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge python3-roswtf

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

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

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

Dependencies

python3-roswtf have the following dependencies:

• python3

References

• python3-roswtf website

Summary

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