How To Install libangles-dev on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libangles-dev on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is libangles-dev
libangles-dev is:
This package is part of Robot OS (ROS). The utilities cover simple things like normalizing an angle and conversion between degrees and radians. But even if you’re trying to calculate things like the shortest angular distance between two joint space positions of your robot, but the joint motion is constrained by joint limits, this package is what you need. The code in this package is stable and well tested. There are no plans for major changes in the near future.
This package contains the development files.
There are three methods to install libangles-dev on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libangles-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 libangles-dev using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libangles-dev
Install libangles-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libangles-dev using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libangles-dev
Install libangles-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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install libangles-dev using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libangles-dev
How To Uninstall libangles-dev on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the libangles-dev package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libangles-dev
Uninstall libangles-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libangles-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libangles-dev
Remove libangles-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libangles-dev configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libangles-dev
Remove libangles-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libangles-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libangles-dev
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libangles-dev package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
