How to Install and Uninstall python3-rospy Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: January 10,2025

You can also install and uninstall the python3-rospy on the following distributions in the same way, as they are all based on the Debian system

MX Linux 23
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1. Install "python3-rospy" package

This tutorial shows how to install python3-rospy on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "python3-rospy" package

Please follow the instructions below to uninstall python3-rospy on Debian 12 (Bookworm):


    
        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the python3-rospy package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: python3-rospy
Source: ros-ros-comm
Version: 1.15.15+ds-2
Installed-Size: 429
Maintainer: Debian Science Maintainers
Architecture: all
Depends: python3:any, python3-std-msgs, python3-rosgraph, python3-roscpp-msg, python3-rosgraph-msgs, python3-yaml, python3-roslib
Description: Python 3 client library for Robot OS
Description-md5: b11d3c7248627508416efe19f16989d6
Multi-Arch: allowed
Homepage: https://wiki.ros.org/ros_comm
Section: python
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/r/ros-ros-comm/python3-rospy_1.15.15+ds-2_all.deb
Size: 76732
MD5sum: 7659a8ccd54df00ea54935c4bd5ed70e
SHA256: e0ce30075af89e923a8935da0f4f65a69989f973c88a6a94e6ea9ed7979b3e03