How To Install liblaser-geometry-dev on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install liblaser-geometry-dev on Debian 12.
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 12. 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 12
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 12, 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 12 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:
- liblaser-geometry0d
- libangles-dev
- libroscpp-dev
- libsensor-msgs-dev
- libtf-dev
- libtf2-dev
- libboost-system-dev
- libboost-thread-dev
- libeigen3-dev
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install liblaser-geometry-dev package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
