How To Install ros-image-publisher on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ros-image-publisher on Kali Linux.

What is ros-image-publisher

ros-image-publisher is:

This package is part of Robot OS (ROS). The package provides the library to publish an image stream from single image file or avi motion file. Contains a ROS node.

There are three methods to install ros-image-publisher 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-image-publisher 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-image-publisher using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install ros-image-publisher

Install ros-image-publisher Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install ros-image-publisher

Install ros-image-publisher 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-image-publisher using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install ros-image-publisher

How To Uninstall ros-image-publisher on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the ros-image-publisher package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove ros-image-publisher

Uninstall ros-image-publisher And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove ros-image-publisher

Remove ros-image-publisher Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge ros-image-publisher

Remove ros-image-publisher configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ros-image-publisher

Dependencies

ros-image-publisher have the following dependencies:

• libimage-publisher0d
• libc6
• libgcc-s1
• libnodeletlib1d
• librosconsole3d
• libroscpp3d
• libstdc++6

References

• ros-image-publisher website

Summary

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