How To Install catkin-lint on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install catkin-lint on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is catkin-lint
catkin-lint is:
This package is part of Robot OS (ROS). catkin_lint checks package configurations for the catkin build system of ROS. It runs a static analysis of the package.xml and CMakeLists.txt files in your package, and it will detect and report a number of common problems.
There are three methods to install catkin-lint on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install catkin-lint Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install catkin-lint using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install catkin-lint
Install catkin-lint Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install catkin-lint using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install catkin-lint
Install catkin-lint 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install catkin-lint using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install catkin-lint
How To Uninstall catkin-lint on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the catkin-lint package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove catkin-lint
Uninstall catkin-lint And Its Dependencies
To uninstall catkin-lint and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove catkin-lint
Remove catkin-lint Configurations and Data
To remove catkin-lint configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge catkin-lint
Remove catkin-lint configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove catkin-lint configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge catkin-lint
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install catkin-lint package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.