How To Install python3-rospy on Ubuntu
Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )
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Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-rospy on Ubuntu.
What is python3-rospy
python3-rospy is:
This package is part of Robot OS (ROS). The rospy client API enables Python programmers to quickly interface with ROS topics, services, and parameters. The design of rospy favors implementation speed (i.e. developer time) over runtime performance so that algorithms can be quickly prototyped and tested within ROS. It is also ideal for non-critical-path code, such as configuration and initialization code. Many of the ROS tools are written in rospy to take advantage of the type introspection capabilities.
Many of the ROS tools, such as rostopic and rosservice, are built on top of rospy.
This package contains the Python 3 library.
There are three methods to install python3-rospy on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install python3-rospy Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install python3-rospy using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python3-rospy
Install python3-rospy Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python3-rospy using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python3-rospy
Install python3-rospy 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 python3-rospy using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python3-rospy
How To Uninstall python3-rospy on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the python3-rospy package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python3-rospy
Uninstall python3-rospy And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python3-rospy and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python3-rospy
Remove python3-rospy Configurations and Data
To remove python3-rospy configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python3-rospy
Remove python3-rospy configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python3-rospy configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python3-rospy
Dependencies
python3-rospy have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-rospy package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.