How To Install ros-desktop on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ros-desktop
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is ros-desktop
ros-desktop is:
This package is part of Robot OS (ROS). It is a metapackage which provides the ROS desktop system (including ROS robot and viz).
Different to upstream, this package does not provide: common_tutorials, geometry_tutorials, ros_tutorials, roslint, urdf_tutorial, visualization_tutorials. Please install them from source, if you need them.
There are three methods to install ros-desktop
on Ubuntu 22.04. 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 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
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install ros-desktop
Install ros-desktop Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install ros-desktop
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install ros-desktop
Install ros-desktop 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
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install ros-desktop
How To Uninstall ros-desktop on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the ros-desktop
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove ros-desktop
Uninstall ros-desktop And Its Dependencies
To uninstall ros-desktop
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove ros-desktop
Remove ros-desktop Configurations and Data
To remove ros-desktop
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge ros-desktop
Remove ros-desktop configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove ros-desktop
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ros-desktop
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ros-desktop
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.