How To Install ros-robot-state-publisher on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ros-robot-state-publisher on Kali Linux.
What is ros-robot-state-publisher
ros-robot-state-publisher is:
This package is part of Robot OS (ROS). This package allows you to publish the state of a robot to tf. Once the state gets published, it is available to all components in the system that also use tf. The package takes the joint angles of the robot as input and publishes the 3D poses of the robot links, using a kinematic tree model of the robot.
This package contains the tools.
There are three methods to install ros-robot-state-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-robot-state-publisher Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install ros-robot-state-publisher using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install ros-robot-state-publisherInstall ros-robot-state-publisher Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install ros-robot-state-publisher using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install ros-robot-state-publisherInstall ros-robot-state-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 updateAfter updating apt database, We can install ros-robot-state-publisher using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install ros-robot-state-publisherHow To Uninstall ros-robot-state-publisher on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the ros-robot-state-publisher package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove ros-robot-state-publisherUninstall ros-robot-state-publisher And Its Dependencies
To uninstall ros-robot-state-publisher and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove ros-robot-state-publisherRemove ros-robot-state-publisher Configurations and Data
To remove ros-robot-state-publisher configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge ros-robot-state-publisherRemove ros-robot-state-publisher configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove ros-robot-state-publisher configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ros-robot-state-publisherDependencies
ros-robot-state-publisher have the following dependencies:
- libc6
- libgcc-s1
- libjoint-state-listener1d
- libkdl-parser1d
- liborocos-kdl1.4
- librosconsole3d
- libroscpp3d
- libstdc++6
- liburdf1d
- liburdfdom-world
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ros-robot-state-publisher package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
