How To Install rosbash 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 rosbash on Ubuntu.
What is rosbash
rosbash is:
This package is part of Robot OS (ROS). The rosbash package contains some useful bash functions and adds tab-completion to a large number of the basic ros utilities. The package includes limited support for zsh and tcsh by way of sourcing the roszsh or rostcsh files respectively. It doesn’t provide documentation on these shells, though much of the functionality is similar to the bash shell extensions.
There are three methods to install rosbash 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 rosbash Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install rosbash using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install rosbash
Install rosbash Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install rosbash using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install rosbash
Install rosbash 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 rosbash using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install rosbash
How To Uninstall rosbash on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the rosbash package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove rosbash
Uninstall rosbash And Its Dependencies
To uninstall rosbash and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove rosbash
Remove rosbash Configurations and Data
To remove rosbash configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge rosbash
Remove rosbash configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove rosbash configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge rosbash
Dependencies
rosbash have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install rosbash package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.