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Is there any command that can completely delete a package?

asked 2016-02-12 02:01:57 -0500

percy_liu
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updated 2016-02-12 02:26:00 -0500

Is there any command that can completely delete a package, which is built from sources in a catkin workspace, on Ubuntu?

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Please clarify: a package installed on Ubuntu/Debian using apt-get, a package built from sources in a catkin workspace, something else ..

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answered 2016-02-12 02:09:46 -0500

Stefan Kohlbrecher

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If by completely deleting you mean "removing a repo and not making it reappear after wstool update" I don't think so. We've been using a small script that first removes a repo from a workspace and then deletes the folder afterwards: rm_from_workspace.sh (It's pretty simple, there might be nicer solutions out there).

If you really just want to get rid of a package you just have to remove the corresponding folder and that's it.

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