How To Install ros-perception on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ros-perception
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is ros-perception
ros-perception is:
This package is part of Robot OS (ROS). It is a metapackage which provides all the ROS perception system (including ROS base).
Different to upstream, this package does not provide: image_pipeline, image_transport_plugins, laser_assembler, laser_filters, laser_geometry, perception_pcl. Please install them from source, if you need them.
There are three methods to install ros-perception
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-perception 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-perception
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install ros-perception
Install ros-perception Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install ros-perception
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install ros-perception
Install ros-perception 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-perception
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install ros-perception
How To Uninstall ros-perception on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the ros-perception
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove ros-perception
Uninstall ros-perception And Its Dependencies
To uninstall ros-perception
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove ros-perception
Remove ros-perception Configurations and Data
To remove ros-perception
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge ros-perception
Remove ros-perception configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove ros-perception
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ros-perception
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ros-perception
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.