How I completely remove all ros from my system?

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asked 2013-03-05 13:23:40 -0600

unais
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Hello,

The ros path and different versions of ros couses problem in my system. I want to completely uninstall ros from my system. I want to completely remove all things related to ros from my system. How can I done this?

Then wan't to install a fresh ROS

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answered 2013-03-05 13:56:43 -0600

Jon Stephan

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If you're running Ubuntu, and installed ROS with apt-get, the first step would be

sudo apt-get remove ros-*

If you've created a workspace, you'll have to also remove that... and if you added the setup scripts to your .bashrc, you'd have to remove them too.

If you've installed from source then it will be more complicated.

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hello, Actually I had both indigo and jade installed in my system. I tried to remove jade by sudo apt-get remove ros-jade but it shows unable to locate package ros-jade. I want to remove only jade

newbieros ( 2015-10-07 04:08:46 -0600 )edit

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Hai, I am completely new to ros and linux. Can you pls tell me how to remove added scripts from .bashrc. Also I believe that removing workspace simply means removing the folder. Kindly help

skr_robo ( 2016-01-12 18:42:54 -0600 )edit

@newbieros did you try $ sudo apt-get remove ros-jade-* ? You have to add the asterisk in there.

jacksonkr_ ( 2016-03-30 17:00:37 -0600 )edit

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@Jon what if you did install it from a source? what do you have to do to remove it?

pacifickid9 ( 2017-10-20 21:55:33 -0600 )edit

i removed ROS using the command and deleted catkin_ws manually but still when i open my terminal i see this.........

bash: /opt/ros/kinetic/setup.bash: No such file or directory bash: /home/kaustubh/catkin_ws/devel/setup.bash: No such file or directory

kaustubh@ubuntu:~$

Please help me get rid of this

Kaustubh Patil ( 2020-02-18 14:24:13 -0600 )edit

@Kaustubh Patil - if you are on Ubuntu you have to remove the line from .bashrc: Edit the file ./bashrc: sudo nano ~/.bashrc

The remove the line that looks something like this: : source /opt/ros/kinetic/setup.bash

Jaapy ( 2020-02-19 02:59:08 -0600 )edit

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Note that this syntax does not work between aptversions 1.9.9 and 2.0.2: https://askubuntu.com/a/1218821

Instead, use sudo apt uninstall '?name(ros-*)'

33thou ( 2020-10-05 21:08:51 -0600 )edit

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answered 2014-09-09 07:45:20 -0600

tonyParker

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updated 2014-09-09 07:54:24 -0600

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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Hi! Could you tell me if I should manually delete catkin_ws folder?

aidos ( 2016-05-24 08:09:20 -0600 )edit

There is also one interesting thing occurred while the purging process: it has deleted "Krusader" file manager from my system. I am new to Ubuntu, so I don't know why this purge command has also done this.

aidos ( 2016-05-24 08:10:59 -0600 )edit

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The command should be sudo apt-get purge '^ros-*', to match really only things that start with ros-, otherwise it will uninstall other packages that contain the string ros, like things with microsoft in the name (this is probably also the answer to your problem, @aidos).

nh2 ( 2016-08-06 07:34:02 -0600 )edit

aidos, you should not delete catkin_ws folder it is yours. If you want to delete only catkin_ws you can delete it separately, and create a new one.

ixtiyoruz ( 2020-08-12 20:15:28 -0600 )edit

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answered 2013-03-05 14:23:39 -0600

aimc
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Hi. First thing to do is: sudo apt-get remove ros-* as Jon Stephan said before. Then, you should check your ~/.bashrc (as noted before). Check for your /opt/ directory, where a ROS folder may still exist.

Reboot. You might want to verify that ROS is completely removed by echoing ROS_PACKAGE_PATH or other variables.

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Hi, I would like add a point here. I tried the above remove command. All the files were removed except for a folder in /etc/ros/rosdep/. This folder contains the sources list. I believe this too should be removed. Please correct me if I am wrong. thank you.

MKI ( 2014-06-19 05:00:35 -0600 )edit

MKI do u knw how to remove it?

kaygudo ( 2015-12-18 10:13:13 -0600 )edit

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You need to do with sudo rm command.

sudo rm 20-default.list

Nebula ( 2018-03-15 02:44:07 -0600 )edit

sudo rm /etc/ros/rosdep/sources.list.d/20-default.list

spkadam ( 2020-04-13 15:39:09 -0600 )edit

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answered 2021-08-25 07:09:30 -0600

gokulp01
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Hello! I know its coming in quite late, but if anyone else is looking for the solution:

sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove ros-<distro_name>-desktop-full

replace <distro_name> with the distro you are currently using, in my case, melodic:

sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove ros-melodic-desktop-full

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