How To Install rosbash on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install rosbash on Kali Linux.

What is rosbash

rosbash is:

This package is part of Robot OS (ROS). The rosbash package contains some useful bash functions and adds tab-completion to a large number of the basic ros utilities. The package includes limited support for zsh and tcsh by way of sourcing the roszsh or rostcsh files respectively. It doesn’t provide documentation on these shells, though much of the functionality is similar to the bash shell extensions.

There are three methods to install rosbash 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 rosbash Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install rosbash

Install rosbash Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install rosbash using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install rosbash

Install rosbash 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 rosbash using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install rosbash

How To Uninstall rosbash on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the rosbash package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove rosbash

Uninstall rosbash And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove rosbash

Remove rosbash Configurations and Data

To remove rosbash configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge rosbash

Remove rosbash configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge rosbash

Dependencies

rosbash have the following dependencies:

• rospack-tools
• catkin

References

• rosbash website

Summary

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