How To Install liborocos-kdl-dev on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install liborocos-kdl-dev on Ubuntu 18.04.
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 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 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 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 liborocos-kdl-dev using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install liborocos-kdl-dev
How To Uninstall liborocos-kdl-dev on Ubuntu 18.04
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 Ubuntu 18.04, 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 Ubuntu 18.04 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
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install liborocos-kdl-dev package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
