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pcl


Information about the package, pcl, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The pcl package is designed for, Library for point cloud processing.


Package Name:

pcl

Summary:

Library for point cloud processing

Description:

The Point Cloud Library (or PCL) is a large scale, open project for point cloud processing. The PCL framework contains numerous state-of-the art algorithms including filtering, feature estimation, surface reconstruction, registration, model fitting and segmentation.

Architecture:

x86_64

Version:

1.7.1

Release:

8.el6

Size:

9.3 M

Repository:

epel

From Repository:

Licence:

BSD



Handy Yum Commands for pcl


Control the pcl package with the following handy commands outlined below.


Command

Description of Command

yum install pcl

This command will install pcl on the server.

yum remove pcl

This command will un-install pcl on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove pcl, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y remove pcl

This command will un-install pcl on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove pcl when using the -y flag.

yum update pcl

This command will update pcl to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove pcl, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y update pcl

This command will update pcl to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove pcl when using the -y flag.

yum info pcl

This command will show you core information about the pcl package.

yum deplist pcl

This command will show you the dependencies for pcl. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.

yum check-update pcl

This command will check if there is an update waiting on pcl. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.