How To Install ros-opencv-apps on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install ros-opencv-apps on Kali Linux. ros-opencv-apps is opencv_apps Robot OS package - apps

Introduction

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

What is ros-opencv-apps

ros-opencv-apps is:

This package is part of Robot OS (ROS). It contains several ROS packages for working providing OpenCV functionalities in a simplest manner in ROS, i.e., running a launch file that corresponds to the functionality.

The package contains implementations for edge detection, structural analysis, people/face detection, motion analysis and object segmentation.

It contains the nodes and the ROS stuff of the opencv-apps.

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

sudo apt-get -y install ros-opencv-apps

Install ros-opencv-apps Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install ros-opencv-apps

Install ros-opencv-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 ros-opencv-apps using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install ros-opencv-apps

How To Uninstall ros-opencv-apps on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove ros-opencv-apps

Uninstall ros-opencv-apps And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove ros-opencv-apps

Remove ros-opencv-apps Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge ros-opencv-apps

Remove ros-opencv-apps configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ros-opencv-apps

Dependencies

ros-opencv-apps have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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