How To Install libkido-utils-dev on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libkido-utils-dev on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is libkido-utils-dev
libkido-utils-dev is:
KIDO is a collaborative, cross-platform, open source library created by the Georgia Tech Graphics Lab and Humanoid Robotics Lab. The library provides data structures and algorithms for kinematic and dynamic applications in robotics and computer animation. KIDO is distinguished by it’s accuracy and stability due to its use of generalized coordinates to represent articulated rigid body systems and computation of Lagrange’s equations derived from D.Alembert’s principle to describe the dynamics of motion. For developers, in contrast to many popular physics engines which view the simulator as a black box, KIDO gives full access to internal kinematic and dynamic quantities, such as the mass matrix, Coriolis and centrifugal forces, transformation matrices and their derivatives. KIDO also provides efficient computation of Jacobian matrices for arbitrary body points and coordinate frames. Contact and collision are handled using an implicit time-stepping, velocity-based LCP (linear-complementarity problem) to guarantee non-penetration, directional friction, and approximated Coulomb friction cone conditions. For collision detection, KIDO uses FCL developed by Willow Garage and the UNC Gamma Lab. KIDO has applications in robotics and computer animation because it features a multibody dynamic simulator and tools for control and motion planning. Multibody dynamic simulation in KIDO is an extension of RTQL8, an open source software created by the Georgia Tech Graphics Lab. This package contains headers and other useful tools for development.
There are three methods to install libkido-utils-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 libkido-utils-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 libkido-utils-dev using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libkido-utils-dev
Install libkido-utils-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libkido-utils-dev using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libkido-utils-dev
Install libkido-utils-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 libkido-utils-dev using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libkido-utils-dev
How To Uninstall libkido-utils-dev on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the libkido-utils-dev package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libkido-utils-dev
Uninstall libkido-utils-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libkido-utils-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libkido-utils-dev
Remove libkido-utils-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libkido-utils-dev configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libkido-utils-dev
Remove libkido-utils-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libkido-utils-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libkido-utils-dev
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libkido-utils-dev package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
