How to Install and Uninstall ros-desktop-dev Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: February 03,2025

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

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "ros-desktop-dev" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install ros-desktop-dev on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "ros-desktop-dev" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to uninstall ros-desktop-dev on Debian 12 (Bookworm):


    
        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the ros-desktop-dev package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: ros-desktop-dev
Source: ros-metapackages
Version: 1.16
Installed-Size: 9
Maintainer: Debian Science Maintainers
Architecture: all
Depends: ros-desktop, ros-robot-dev, ros-viz-dev
Recommends: ros-desktop-python-dev, ros-desktop-lisp-dev
Description: Robot OS desktop development metapackage
Description-md5: 02e58a039007513f959fe5f5ff3333ed
Section: metapackages
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/r/ros-metapackages/ros-desktop-dev_1.16_all.deb
Size: 2876
MD5sum: 35781f715c83c6724b37ab098e37a9e9
SHA256: 4c3f78dcc84283f166600b696ef7a40de1bc7119ff2ed42206ae634effa4582e