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