How To Install cl-opencv-apps on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install cl-opencv-apps on Kali Linux.

What is cl-opencv-apps

cl-opencv-apps is:

This package is part of Robot OS (ROS). It contains several ROS packages for working providing OpenCV functionalities in a simplest manner in ROS, i.e., running a launch file that corresponds to the functionality.

The package contains implementations for edge detection, structural analysis, people/face detection, motion analysis and object segmentation.

It contains the LISP bindings for the opencv_apps library.

There are three methods to install cl-opencv-apps on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install cl-opencv-apps Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install cl-opencv-apps using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install cl-opencv-apps

Install cl-opencv-apps Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install cl-opencv-apps using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install cl-opencv-apps

Install cl-opencv-apps Using aptitude

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

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install cl-opencv-apps using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install cl-opencv-apps

How To Uninstall cl-opencv-apps on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the cl-opencv-apps package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove cl-opencv-apps

Uninstall cl-opencv-apps And Its Dependencies

To uninstall cl-opencv-apps and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove cl-opencv-apps

Remove cl-opencv-apps Configurations and Data

To remove cl-opencv-apps configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge cl-opencv-apps

Remove cl-opencv-apps configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove cl-opencv-apps configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge cl-opencv-apps

Dependencies

cl-opencv-apps have the following dependencies:

References

• cl-opencv-apps website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install cl-opencv-apps package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.