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Doc: recommend system install of rosdep #954

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Installing rosdep
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rosdep2 is available using pip or easy_install::
.. admonition:: Note

sudo pip install -U rosdep
If you want to use rosdep with ROS1/2, you should install rosdep
following their installation instructions:

* `ROS1 installation instructions
<http://wiki.ros.org/ROS/Installation>`_
* `ROS2 installation instructions
<http://docs.ros.org/en/iron/Installation.html>`_
[#rosdep_in_dev_tools]_

.. [#rosdep_in_dev_tools] In ROS2 Foxy and beyond, rosdep is included in the ros-dev-tools package.

It is recommended to use the system package manager to install rosdep.

or::
rosdep2 is a system package under Ubuntu and Debian::

# Ubuntu >= 20.04 (Focal)
sudo apt-get install python3-rosdep
# Debian >=11 (Bullseye)
sudo apt-get install python3-rosdep2

If rosdep doesn't exist in your package manager, you can install it
using pip or easy_install::
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It's probably also worth dropping the reference to easy_install as it is no longer tested or used in our CI stack to the best of my knowledge.


# Python 2
sudo pip install -U rosdep
# Python 3
sudo pip3 install -U rosdep
# easy_install
sudo easy_install -U rosdep rospkg


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