How To Install ros-cmake-modules on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install ros-cmake-modules on Kali Linux. ros-cmake-modules is Robot OS CMake Modules

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ros-cmake-modules on Kali Linux.

What is ros-cmake-modules

ros-cmake-modules is:

This package is part of Robot OS (ROS). It contains a bunch of CMake Modules which are not distributed with CMake but are commonly used by ROS packages. The modules added are:

  • FindEigen.cmake
  • FindGflags.cmake
  • FindGSL.cmake
  • FindNUMPY.cmake
  • FindPoco.cmake
  • FindTBB.cmake
  • FindTinyXML.cmake
  • FindTinyXML2.cmake
  • FindUUID.cmake
  • FindXenomai.cmake

There are three methods to install ros-cmake-modules 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 ros-cmake-modules Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install ros-cmake-modules using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install ros-cmake-modules

Install ros-cmake-modules Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install ros-cmake-modules using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install ros-cmake-modules

Install ros-cmake-modules 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 ros-cmake-modules using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install ros-cmake-modules

How To Uninstall ros-cmake-modules on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the ros-cmake-modules package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove ros-cmake-modules

Uninstall ros-cmake-modules And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove ros-cmake-modules

Remove ros-cmake-modules Configurations and Data

To remove ros-cmake-modules configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge ros-cmake-modules

Remove ros-cmake-modules configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove ros-cmake-modules configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ros-cmake-modules

Dependencies

ros-cmake-modules have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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