How To Install ros-viz on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ros-viz
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is ros-viz
ros-viz is:
This package is part of Robot OS (ROS). It is a metapackage which provides all the ROS viz system (including ROS base).
There are three methods to install ros-viz
on Ubuntu 22.04. 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-viz 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-viz
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install ros-viz
Install ros-viz Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install ros-viz
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install ros-viz
Install ros-viz 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-viz
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install ros-viz
How To Uninstall ros-viz on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the ros-viz
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove ros-viz
Uninstall ros-viz And Its Dependencies
To uninstall ros-viz
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove ros-viz
Remove ros-viz Configurations and Data
To remove ros-viz
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge ros-viz
Remove ros-viz configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove ros-viz
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ros-viz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ros-viz
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.