How To Install icp-slam-live on Ubuntu 22.04

One-liner install command

For those in a hurry, here's a one-line installation command:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt -y install mrpt-apps

But if you are interested in the detailed steps with descriptions, the following information is for you.

What is icp-slam-live and what are the ways to install it?

Before beginning this tutorial, you will need access to a server or computer running Ubuntu 22.04. This guide was written specifically with a server running Ubuntu 22.04 in mind, although it should also work on older, supported versions of the operating system.

Also, make sure you are running a regular, non-root user with sudo privileges configured on your server. When you have an account available, log in as your non-root user to begin.

There are several ways to install icp-slam-live on Ubuntu 22.04. You can use (links are clickable):

In the following sections, we will describe each method in detail. You can choose one of them or refer to the recommended one.

Install icp-slam-live using apt-get

First, update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt-get database, You can install icp-slam-live using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install mrpt-apps

Install icp-slam-live using apt

Because icp-slam-live is available in Ubuntu 22.04’s default repositories, it is possible to install it from these repositories using the apt packaging system.

To begin, update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, You can install icp-slam-live using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install mrpt-apps

Install icp-slam-live using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu 22.04. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating aptitude database, You can install icp-slam-live by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install mrpt-apps

How to upgrade (update) a single package icp-slam-live using apt-get?

First, you will need to update packages index. Run update command as usual:

sudo apt-get update

Next, to upgrade only the icp-slam-live, e.g. single package, you should use the following format with the apt-get command/apt command:

sudo apt-get --only-upgrade install mrpt-apps

Note that this command will not install any new packages! If you wish to install the package if it doesn't exist you may leave out --only-upgrade part.

sudo apt-get install mrpt-apps

How To Uninstall icp-slam-live from Ubuntu 22.04

To uninstall only the icp-slam-live package you can execute the following command:

sudo apt-get remove mrpt-apps

Uninstall icp-slam-live and all its dependencies

To uninstall icp-slam-live and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, you can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove mrpt-apps

Remove icp-slam-live with all configurations and data

To remove icp-slam-live configuration and data from your system you can run the following purge command:

sudo apt-get -y purge mrpt-apps

Remove icp-slam-live completely (configurations, data and all of its dependencies)

And lastly, you can run the next command to remove absolutely everything related to icp-slam-live package, e.g.: configurations, data and all of its dependencies. Just use this command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mrpt-apps

Extra info and code examples

The Mobile Robot Programming Toolkit (MRPT) is an extensive, cross-platform, and open source C++ library aimed to help robotics researchers to design and implement algorithms in the fields of Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM), computer vision, and motion planning (obstacle avoidance). This package provides a set of console and GUI applications: - rawlog-grabber: Record datasets from robotic sensors. - RawLogViewer: Robotic dataset viewer and manipulator. - ReactiveNavigationDemo: Obstacle avoidance GUI demo. - SceneViewer3D: GUI viewer of MRPT 3D scenes. - camera-calib: Interactive camera calibration tool. - icp-slam - kf-slam - graph-slam - 2d-slam-demo: GUI didactic robotic SLAM demo. - map-partition - observations2map: Converts simplemaps into metric maps. - pf-localization: Particle filter localization (Monte Carlo localization). - ro-localization - rbpf-slam: Rao-Blackwellized Particle Filter for SLAM. - simul-landmarks - simul-beacons - simul-gridmap - GridmapNavSimul - grid-matching - rawlog-edit - navlog-viewer: GUI viewer of navigation logs. - features-matching: Computer vision demo. - kinect-icp-slam: Example 3D mapping with Xbox Kinect - kinect-view: Example 3D mapping with Xbox Kinect - robotic-arm-kinematics: GUI for design of robot arms with Denavit-Hartenberg parameters. - srba-slam: Sparser Relative Bundle Adjustment (RBA) and Relative Graph-SLAM. - prrt-navigator-demo (Experimental!)

Conclusion

You now have a full guide on how to install icp-slam-live using apt, apt-get and aptitude tools. Also, we showed how to update as a single package and different ways to uninstall the icp-slam-live from Ubuntu 22.04.

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