How To Install ros-sensor-msgs on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ros-sensor-msgs
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is ros-sensor-msgs
ros-sensor-msgs is:
This package is part of Robot OS (ROS). This package defines messages for commonly used sensors, including cameras and scanning laser rangefinders.
This package contains the message definitions.
There are three methods to install ros-sensor-msgs
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-sensor-msgs 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-sensor-msgs
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install ros-sensor-msgs
Install ros-sensor-msgs Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install ros-sensor-msgs
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install ros-sensor-msgs
Install ros-sensor-msgs 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-sensor-msgs
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install ros-sensor-msgs
How To Uninstall ros-sensor-msgs on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the ros-sensor-msgs
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove ros-sensor-msgs
Uninstall ros-sensor-msgs And Its Dependencies
To uninstall ros-sensor-msgs
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove ros-sensor-msgs
Remove ros-sensor-msgs Configurations and Data
To remove ros-sensor-msgs
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge ros-sensor-msgs
Remove ros-sensor-msgs configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove ros-sensor-msgs
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ros-sensor-msgs
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ros-sensor-msgs
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.