How To Install ros-simulators on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is ros-simulators

ros-simulators is:

This package is part of Robot OS (ROS). It is a metapackage which provides all the ROS robot system (including ROS robot).

Different to upstream, this package does not provide: rqt_common_plugins, rqt_robot_plugins, stage_ros. Please install them from source, if you need them.

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

sudo apt-get -y install ros-simulators

Install ros-simulators Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install ros-simulators

Install ros-simulators 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-simulators using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install ros-simulators

How To Uninstall ros-simulators on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove ros-simulators

Uninstall ros-simulators And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove ros-simulators

Remove ros-simulators Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge ros-simulators

Remove ros-simulators configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ros-simulators

Dependencies

ros-simulators have the following dependencies:

• ros-robot

References

• ros-simulators website

Summary

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