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Using rosdep it is possible to install system dependencies. Is there a command to uninstall the same system dependencies.
For example, you can do,
rosdep install rxtools
at the command line. Now is there any command to uninstall rxtools?
To get a list of debian packages required by a ROS package, you can run:
rosdep depdb rospackage(s) > debs.txt
Now you'll have to do some search-and-replace (or some nifty sed magic) to get a line-separated list of debian packages. Then you can run:
sudo xargs -d '\n' -a debs.txt aptitude markauto
... which will pipe the packages into aptitude markauto. Using markauto instead of remove has the advantage that only those packages are removed that are not needed by any other package in the system. Finally, run
aptitude
... to review the list of packages that would be removed (press 'g'). If you want to keep some package, just highlight it and press '+' to mark it as "manually installed" again. Finally, press 'g' again to remove the packages.
rosdep satisfy -i PACKAGENAME will list everything required by a package. You can then apt-get remove whatever you want. However be careful, other things may depend on some subset of that tree. The best way to do what you want is likey to look in the dpkg logs of when you installed.
(scratching post, answer was incorrect, rosdep satisfy doesn't work)
Asked: 2011-06-15 09:41:19 -0500
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Last updated: Jun 16 '11
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