How To Install ros-robot on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ros-robot on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is ros-robot
ros-robot is:
This package is part of Robot OS (ROS). It is a metapackage which provides all the ROS robot system (including ROS base).
Different to upstream, this package does not provide: control_msgs, diagnostics, executive_smach, filters, robot_state_publisher, xacro. Please install them from source, if you need them.
There are three methods to install ros-robot on Ubuntu 18.04. 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-robot 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 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install ros-robot
Install ros-robot Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install ros-robot using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install ros-robot
Install ros-robot 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-robot using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install ros-robot
How To Uninstall ros-robot on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the ros-robot package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove ros-robot
Uninstall ros-robot And Its Dependencies
To uninstall ros-robot and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove ros-robot
Remove ros-robot Configurations and Data
To remove ros-robot configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge ros-robot
Remove ros-robot configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove ros-robot configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ros-robot
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ros-robot package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
