How To Install cyclonedds-tools on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install cyclonedds-tools
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is cyclonedds-tools
cyclonedds-tools is:
Eclipse Cyclone DDS is a very performant and robust open-source implementation of the Data Distribution Service (DDS) standard by the Object Management Group (OMG) and the related wire protocol for interoperability (RTPS). It is developed completely in the open as an Eclipse IoT project with a growing list of adopters, and has become a tier-1 middleware for the Robot Operating System (ROS 2).
This package installs the command-line tools for Cyclone DDS, most importantly the Interface Definition Language (IDL) compiler, which is needed to specify data exchange formats for the participants in a DDS network.
There are three methods to install cyclonedds-tools
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 cyclonedds-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 cyclonedds-tools
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install cyclonedds-tools
Install cyclonedds-tools Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install cyclonedds-tools
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install cyclonedds-tools
Install cyclonedds-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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install cyclonedds-tools
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install cyclonedds-tools
How To Uninstall cyclonedds-tools on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the cyclonedds-tools
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove cyclonedds-tools
Uninstall cyclonedds-tools And Its Dependencies
To uninstall cyclonedds-tools
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove cyclonedds-tools
Remove cyclonedds-tools Configurations and Data
To remove cyclonedds-tools
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge cyclonedds-tools
Remove cyclonedds-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove cyclonedds-tools
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge cyclonedds-tools
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install cyclonedds-tools
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.