How To Install ros-desktop-full on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ros-desktop-full
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is ros-desktop-full
ros-desktop-full is:
This package is part of Robot OS (ROS). It is a metapackage which provides the ROS desktop-full system.
There are three methods to install ros-desktop-full
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install ros-desktop-full Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install ros-desktop-full
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install ros-desktop-full
Install ros-desktop-full Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install ros-desktop-full
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install ros-desktop-full
Install ros-desktop-full 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 ros-desktop-full
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install ros-desktop-full
How To Uninstall ros-desktop-full on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the ros-desktop-full
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove ros-desktop-full
Uninstall ros-desktop-full And Its Dependencies
To uninstall ros-desktop-full
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove ros-desktop-full
Remove ros-desktop-full Configurations and Data
To remove ros-desktop-full
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge ros-desktop-full
Remove ros-desktop-full configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove ros-desktop-full
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ros-desktop-full
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ros-desktop-full
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.