Complete ROS uninstallation?

asked 2013-06-27 23:26:14 -0600

Albtech
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updated 2014-04-20 14:09:50 -0600

ngrennan
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Hi guys,

Even though i have tried to uninstall ROS using sudo apt-get remove ros-groovy-*, still there are some remaining packages like: ros-groovy-bfl, ros-groovy-opencv2 ... etc. Did anybody know how to completely remove them because i want to try a fresh installation of ROS and i dont want to have something from the previous installation.

Thank you in advance!

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I don't know in which situation it actually matters but most times I use purge instead of remove, so the package's configuration is cleaned.

felix k ( 2013-06-29 03:16:42 -0600 )edit

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answered 2014-09-09 07:53:58 -0600

tonyParker

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Use

sudo apt-get purge ros-*

It will also remove configuration files. And then

sudo apt-get autoremove

To remove dependencies

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I would add: sudo apt-get purge python-ros*

before running the autoremove command

lordricky ( 2017-02-11 01:54:01 -0600 )edit

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answered 2013-06-28 01:16:02 -0600

Johannes Mayr
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I also used 'sudo apt-get autoremove' which uninstalls unused references as well. You could also remove the remaining packages individually and then performe the autoremove again so that also all unsed dependencies of the packages are removed.