How to Install and Uninstall colcon Package on Kali Linux

Last updated: May 10,2024

1. Install "colcon" package

Here is a brief guide to show you how to install colcon on Kali Linux


    
        
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "colcon" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to uninstall colcon on Kali Linux:


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the colcon package on Kali Linux

Package: colcon
Source: ros2-colcon-core
Version: 0.15.2-1
Installed-Size: 12
Maintainer: Debian Robotics Team
Architecture: all
Depends: python3:any, python3-colcon-core
Recommends: python3-colcon-argcomplete, python3-colcon-bash, python3-colcon-cd, python3-colcon-cmake, python3-colcon-defaults, python3-colcon-devtools, python3-colcon-library-path, python3-colcon-metadata, python3-colcon-notification, python3-colcon-output, python3-colcon-package-information, python3-colcon-package-selection, python3-colcon-parallel-executor, python3-colcon-python-setup-py, python3-colcon-recursive-crawl, python3-colcon-ros, python3-colcon-test-result, python3-colcon-zsh
Size: 3600
SHA256: eff69c2d7ec30b6f761186bad3839a741e355a13292a4b6cac239470021afe4c
SHA1: 9d2b149a8080e5a5feb5e44127b9c8e7b99e9ebc
MD5sum: 963971f8cb3028a74f7e1d31feb93f3f
Description: collective construction meta build tool
This package is part of ROS 2, the Robot Operating System.
colcon is a meta build tool to improve the workflow of building, testing and
using multiple software packages. It is the recommended tool for ROS 2 to set
up workspaces and build packages from source, but can also handle old ROS 1
workspaces.
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This package installs the main colcon executable.
Description-md5:
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: https://colcon.readthedocs.io/
Section: python
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/r/ros2-colcon-core/colcon_0.15.2-1_all.deb