How To Install ros-robot-state-publisher on Debian 11

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ros-robot-state-publisher on Debian 11.

What is ros-robot-state-publisher

ros-robot-state-publisher is:

This package is part of Robot OS (ROS). This package allows you to publish the state of a robot to tf. Once the state gets published, it is available to all components in the system that also use tf. The package takes the joint angles of the robot as input and publishes the 3D poses of the robot links, using a kinematic tree model of the robot.

This package contains the tools.

There are three methods to install ros-robot-state-publisher on Debian 11. 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-robot-state-publisher 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-robot-state-publisher using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install ros-robot-state-publisher

Install ros-robot-state-publisher Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install ros-robot-state-publisher using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install ros-robot-state-publisher

Install ros-robot-state-publisher 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install ros-robot-state-publisher using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install ros-robot-state-publisher

How To Uninstall ros-robot-state-publisher on Debian 11

To uninstall only the ros-robot-state-publisher package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove ros-robot-state-publisher

Uninstall ros-robot-state-publisher And Its Dependencies

To uninstall ros-robot-state-publisher and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove ros-robot-state-publisher

Remove ros-robot-state-publisher Configurations and Data

To remove ros-robot-state-publisher configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge ros-robot-state-publisher

Remove ros-robot-state-publisher configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove ros-robot-state-publisher configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ros-robot-state-publisher

Dependencies

ros-robot-state-publisher have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libgcc-s1
• libjoint-state-listener1d
• libkdl-parser1d
• liborocos-kdl1.4
• librosconsole3d
• libroscpp3d
• libstdc++6
• liburdf1d
• liburdfdom-world

References

• ros-robot-state-publisher website
• ros-robot-state-publisher on packages.debian.org

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ros-robot-state-publisher package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.