How To Install liblaser-geometry-dev on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install liblaser-geometry-dev on Debian 9. liblaser-geometry-dev is Robot OS laser geometry package - development files

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install liblaser-geometry-dev on Debian 9.

What is liblaser-geometry-dev

liblaser-geometry-dev is:

This package is part of Robot OS (ROS). It contains a class for converting from a 2D laser scan as defined by sensor_msgs/LaserScan into a point cloud as defined by sensor_msgs/PointCloud or sensor_msgs/PointCloud2. In particular, it contains functionality to account for the skew resulting from moving robots or tilting laser scanners.

This package contains the development files.

There are three methods to install liblaser-geometry-dev on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install liblaser-geometry-dev Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install liblaser-geometry-dev using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install liblaser-geometry-dev

Install liblaser-geometry-dev Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install liblaser-geometry-dev using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install liblaser-geometry-dev

Install liblaser-geometry-dev Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install liblaser-geometry-dev using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install liblaser-geometry-dev

How To Uninstall liblaser-geometry-dev on Debian 9

To uninstall only the liblaser-geometry-dev package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove liblaser-geometry-dev

Uninstall liblaser-geometry-dev And Its Dependencies

To uninstall liblaser-geometry-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove liblaser-geometry-dev

Remove liblaser-geometry-dev Configurations and Data

To remove liblaser-geometry-dev configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge liblaser-geometry-dev

Remove liblaser-geometry-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove liblaser-geometry-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge liblaser-geometry-dev

Dependencies

liblaser-geometry-dev have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install liblaser-geometry-dev package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.