How To Install liborocos-kdl-dev on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install liborocos-kdl-dev on Kali Linux.

What is liborocos-kdl-dev

liborocos-kdl-dev is:

Orocos project to supply RealTime usable kinematics and dynamics code, it contains code for rigid body kinematics calculations and representations for kinematic structures and their inverse and forward kinematic solvers. This package contains the development files of the library.

There are three methods to install liborocos-kdl-dev 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 liborocos-kdl-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 liborocos-kdl-dev using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install liborocos-kdl-dev

Install liborocos-kdl-dev Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install liborocos-kdl-dev using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install liborocos-kdl-dev

Install liborocos-kdl-dev 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 liborocos-kdl-dev using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install liborocos-kdl-dev

How To Uninstall liborocos-kdl-dev on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the liborocos-kdl-dev package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove liborocos-kdl-dev

Uninstall liborocos-kdl-dev And Its Dependencies

To uninstall liborocos-kdl-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove liborocos-kdl-dev

Remove liborocos-kdl-dev Configurations and Data

To remove liborocos-kdl-dev configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge liborocos-kdl-dev

Remove liborocos-kdl-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove liborocos-kdl-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge liborocos-kdl-dev

Dependencies

liborocos-kdl-dev have the following dependencies:

• liborocos-kdl1.4
• libeigen3-dev

References

• liborocos-kdl-dev website

Summary

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