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Hi guys,

I wanted to remove my ROS fuerte and reinstall it due to some error I can't solve even with solution. So I wanna ask whether can I remove current ROS and reinstall it later on? Will my package still remain or I need to create them all over again after that? How am I suppose to do?

Here's the error wish someone could have help me so I don't need to remove my ROS.

http://answers.ros.org/question/86126/import-errorno-module-named-rospkg/

Originally posted by FuerteNewbie on ROS Answers with karma: 123 on 2013-10-02

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Comment by BennyRe on 2013-10-03:
What do you mean with 'Will my package still remain'?

Comment by FuerteNewbie on 2013-10-03:
All those package that I created in my workspace.

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If you created your workspace properly, you should be fine. The only thing the workspace does is sourcing /opt/ros/fuerte/setup.bash this happens in ~/yourworkspace/setup.bash. So if ROS is reinstalled at the same place there should be no problem I think.

To uninstall ROS completely (debian packages and their configs) do:

sudo apt-get purge ros-fuerte-*

To reinstall simply follow the instructions from the wiki.

Originally posted by BennyRe with karma: 2949 on 2013-10-03

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Comment by FuerteNewbie on 2013-10-03:
So after I delete my ROS and reinstall, I dont need to reconfigure anything about my workspace and all those packages right?

Comment by BennyRe on 2013-10-03:
I think so. Nevertheless I recommend a backup of your machine. You never know...

Comment by FuerteNewbie on 2013-10-03:
Yea I was thinking backing up my workspace and then after reinstall just rosmake them. What do you suggest?

Comment by BennyRe on 2013-10-03:
I think that should work.