How To Install topic-tools on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install topic-tools on Debian 12.
What is topic-tools
topic-tools is:
This package is part of Robot OS (ROS). It contains tools for directing, throttling, selecting, and otherwise messing with ROS topics at a meta level. None of the programs in this package actually know about the topics whose streams they are altering; instead, these tools deal with messages as generic binary blobs. This means they can be applied to any ROS topic.
There are three methods to install topic-tools on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install topic-tools Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install topic-tools using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install topic-tools
Install topic-tools Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install topic-tools using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install topic-tools
Install topic-tools 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 topic-tools using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install topic-tools
How To Uninstall topic-tools on Debian 12
To uninstall only the topic-tools package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove topic-tools
Uninstall topic-tools And Its Dependencies
To uninstall topic-tools and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove topic-tools
Remove topic-tools Configurations and Data
To remove topic-tools configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge topic-tools
Remove topic-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove topic-tools configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge topic-tools
Dependencies
topic-tools have the following dependencies:
- libc6
- libgcc-s1
- librosconsole3d
- libroscpp-serialization0d
- libroscpp4d
- librostime1d
- libstdc++6
- libtopic-tools2d
- libxmlrpcpp3d
- python3
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install topic-tools package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
