How To Install mrpt-apps on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install mrpt-apps on Kali Linux. mrpt-apps is Mobile Robot Programming Toolkit - Console and GUI applications

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install mrpt-apps on Kali Linux.

What is mrpt-apps

mrpt-apps is:

The Mobile Robot Programming Toolkit (MRPT) is an extensive, cross-platform, and open source C++ library aimed to help robotics researchers to design and implement algorithms in the fields of Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM), computer vision, and motion planning (obstacle avoidance).

This package provides a set of console and GUI applications:

  • rawlog-grabber: Record datasets from robotic sensors.
  • RawLogViewer: Robotic dataset viewer and manipulator.
  • ReactiveNavigationDemo: Obstacle avoidance GUI demo.
  • SceneViewer3D: GUI viewer of MRPT 3D scenes.
  • camera-calib: Interactive camera calibration tool.
  • icp-slam
  • kf-slam
  • graph-slam
  • 2d-slam-demo: GUI didactic robotic SLAM demo.
  • map-partition
  • observations2map: Converts simplemaps into metric maps.
  • pf-localization: Particle filter localization (Monte Carlo localization).
  • ro-localization
  • rbpf-slam: Rao-Blackwellized Particle Filter for SLAM.
  • simul-landmarks
  • simul-beacons
  • simul-gridmap
  • GridmapNavSimul
  • grid-matching
  • rawlog-edit
  • navlog-viewer: GUI viewer of navigation logs.
  • features-matching: Computer vision demo.
  • kinect-icp-slam: Example 3D mapping with Xbox Kinect
  • kinect-view: Example 3D mapping with Xbox Kinect
  • robotic-arm-kinematics: GUI for design of robot arms with Denavit-Hartenberg parameters.
  • velodyne-view: Live display/grabbing of Velodyne scanners.
  • rosbag2rawlog: Convert a ROS bag dataset into an MRPT Rawlog file.
  • 3d-rotation-converter: A GUI tool to convert between different SO(3) rotation parameterizations (quaternions, Euler angles, etc.)

There are three methods to install mrpt-apps 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 mrpt-apps Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install mrpt-apps using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install mrpt-apps

Install mrpt-apps Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install mrpt-apps using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install mrpt-apps

Install mrpt-apps 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 mrpt-apps using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install mrpt-apps

How To Uninstall mrpt-apps on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the mrpt-apps package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove mrpt-apps

Uninstall mrpt-apps And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove mrpt-apps

Remove mrpt-apps Configurations and Data

To remove mrpt-apps configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge mrpt-apps

Remove mrpt-apps configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove mrpt-apps configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mrpt-apps

Dependencies

mrpt-apps have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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