How To Install ros-image-view 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 ros-image-view on Ubuntu.

What is `ros-image-view`

ros-image-view is:

This package is part of Robot OS (ROS). The package provides the library with a viewer for ROS image topics. Includes a specialized viewer for stereo + disparity images. Contains ROS nodes.

There are three methods to install ros-image-view 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 ros-image-view 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-image-view using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install ros-image-view

Install ros-image-view Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install ros-image-view using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install ros-image-view

Install ros-image-view 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-image-view using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install ros-image-view

How To Uninstall ros-image-view on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the ros-image-view package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove ros-image-view

Uninstall ros-image-view And Its Dependencies

To uninstall ros-image-view and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove ros-image-view

Remove ros-image-view Configurations and Data

To remove ros-image-view configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge ros-image-view

Remove ros-image-view configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove ros-image-view configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ros-image-view

Dependencies

ros-image-view have the following dependencies:

References

ros-image-view website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ros-image-view package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.