How To Install libgeometric-shapes-dev on Ubuntu

Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )

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Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libgeometric-shapes-dev on Ubuntu.

What is `libgeometric-shapes-dev`

libgeometric-shapes-dev is:

This package is part of Robot OS (ROS), and contains generic definitions of geometric shapes and bodies.

This package contains the development files.

There are three methods to install libgeometric-shapes-dev on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install libgeometric-shapes-dev Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install libgeometric-shapes-dev

Install libgeometric-shapes-dev Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libgeometric-shapes-dev using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libgeometric-shapes-dev

Install libgeometric-shapes-dev 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. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install libgeometric-shapes-dev using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libgeometric-shapes-dev

How To Uninstall libgeometric-shapes-dev on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the libgeometric-shapes-dev package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libgeometric-shapes-dev

Uninstall libgeometric-shapes-dev And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libgeometric-shapes-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libgeometric-shapes-dev

Remove libgeometric-shapes-dev Configurations and Data

To remove libgeometric-shapes-dev configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libgeometric-shapes-dev

Remove libgeometric-shapes-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libgeometric-shapes-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libgeometric-shapes-dev

Dependencies

libgeometric-shapes-dev have the following dependencies:

References

libgeometric-shapes-dev website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libgeometric-shapes-dev package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.