How to Install and Uninstall rosidl-tools Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: February 24,2025

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

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "rosidl-tools" package

Learn how to install rosidl-tools on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "rosidl-tools" package

Please follow the guidelines below to uninstall rosidl-tools on Debian 12 (Bookworm):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the rosidl-tools package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: rosidl-tools
Source: ros2-rosidl
Version: 3.3.1-1
Installed-Size: 17
Maintainer: Debian Robotics Team
Architecture: all
Depends: python3:any, python3-rosidl
Description: ROS 2 IDL support (CLI tools)
Description-md5: f0edf0251bc319b9effdfa0fad072a50
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: https://github.com/ros2/rosidl
Section: devel
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/r/ros2-rosidl/rosidl-tools_3.3.1-1_all.deb
Size: 3860
MD5sum: dbe8faca420789fd7cd655f85e3fc27e
SHA256: de46e1405fa90d03026b70830a6d7767983a78b49f7bec6862a2ba89f6a61beb