# urdfdom mit Homebrew, Nix, apt installieren

Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für urdfdom in AI-Agent-Workflows.

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:urdfdom
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install urdfdom
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#urdfdom
```

  Evidenz: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ur/urdfdom/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

- Debian apt (92%):

```sh
sudo apt install liburdfdom-dev
```

  Evidenz: Debian stable package indexes: liburdfdom-dev from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:urdfdom
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 6.0.1
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** Unified Robot Description Format (URDF) parser
- **Homepage:** <https://wiki.ros.org/urdf/>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/ros/urdfdom>
- **Zuletzt aktualisiert:** 2026-07-30T11:25:01Z
- **Generiert:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- check_urdf (Alias)
- urdf_mem_test (Alias)
- urdf_to_graphviz (Alias)

## Installationsverhalten

- Bottle: nicht verfügbar

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-08-03
- Manager-Version: 6.0.1
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

urdfdom is the ROS ecosystem's standalone C++ parser and data-model library for the Unified Robot Description Format. Its README describes it as providing core data structures and XML parsing for populating those structures from URDF robot files.

### Projektgeschichte

The public GitHub repository was created in 2013, and the README reflects its role as a library that can be built independently but is also released through the ROS packaging process. The README's ROS section explains that ROS release packaging supplies a `package.xml` during release, with examples from the ROS Hydro era.

### Adoptionsgeschichte

urdfdom's adoption is tied to ROS and robot-description workflows: robot models, links, joints, materials, visual and collision geometry, transmissions, and Gazebo extensions. The official ROS docs publish generated package documentation and changelogs, while the batch input lists Homebrew, Debian, Ubuntu, and Nix packages, including Debian/Ubuntu's `liburdfdom-dev` naming.

### Wie es verwendet wird

Package users encounter urdfdom as both a development library and a set of small validation/conversion tools such as `check_urdf` and `urdf_to_graphviz`. Maintainers often care about ABI compatibility because the README warns that installing from source over ROS Debian packages can break future `/opt/ros` updates.

### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

urdfdom is important in package-manager niches because it is a small library with a large robotics dependency footprint. It bridges ROS release tooling, Debian-style development packages, Homebrew robotics stacks, CMake consumers, and the evolving URDF file format.

### Zeitleiste

- 2013: Public GitHub repository metadata records the urdfdom repository creation.
- ROS Hydro era: README documented pulling ROS release `package.xml` metadata for source builds.
- 2025: 4.0.3 removed deprecated code and ROS 1 workflows.
- 2026: 5.1.0 added URDF specification 1.1 support.
- 2026: 6.0.0 added URDF specification 1.2 support.

### Related projects

- The official docs link urdfdom with urdfdom_headers. The README points to the ROS URDF specification and to ROS release repositories used for distribution metadata.

### Quellen

- <https://docs.ros.org/en/rolling/p/urdfdom/>
- <https://github.com/ros/urdfdom/blob/rolling/CHANGELOG.rst>
- <https://github.com/ros/urdfdom/blob/rolling/README.md>
- input source_facts.package-manager


## Sicherheitshinweise

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger-Risiko:** grün / niedrig
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

- Debian apt - liburdfdom-dev - 4.0.0-3+b1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: liburdfdom-dev from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | URDF DOM - development files | https://github.com/ros/urdfdom
- Debian apt - liburdfdom-model-state4.0 - 4.0.0-3+b1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: liburdfdom-model-state4.0 from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | URDF DOM - model state library | https://github.com/ros/urdfdom
- Debian apt - liburdfdom-model4.0 - 4.0.0-3+b1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: liburdfdom-model4.0 from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | URDF DOM - model library | https://github.com/ros/urdfdom
- Debian apt - liburdfdom-sensor4.0 - 4.0.0-3+b1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: liburdfdom-sensor4.0 from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | URDF DOM - sensor library | https://github.com/ros/urdfdom
- Debian apt - liburdfdom-tools - 4.0.0-3+b1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: liburdfdom-tools from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | URDF DOM - tools | https://github.com/ros/urdfdom
- Debian apt - liburdfdom-world4.0 - 4.0.0-3+b1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: liburdfdom-world4.0 from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | URDF DOM - world library | https://github.com/ros/urdfdom
- Nix - urdfdom: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ur/urdfdom/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- Ubuntu apt - liburdfdom-dev - 4.0.0-0ubuntu1: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: liburdfdom-dev from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | URDF DOM - development files | https://github.com/ros/urdfdom
- Ubuntu apt - liburdfdom-model-state4.0 - 4.0.0-0ubuntu1: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: liburdfdom-model-state4.0 from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | URDF DOM - model state library | https://github.com/ros/urdfdom
- Ubuntu apt - liburdfdom-model4.0 - 4.0.0-0ubuntu1: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: liburdfdom-model4.0 from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | URDF DOM - model library | https://github.com/ros/urdfdom
- Ubuntu apt - liburdfdom-sensor4.0 - 4.0.0-0ubuntu1: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: liburdfdom-sensor4.0 from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | URDF DOM - sensor library | https://github.com/ros/urdfdom
- Ubuntu apt - liburdfdom-tools - 4.0.0-0ubuntu1: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: liburdfdom-tools from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | URDF DOM - tools | https://github.com/ros/urdfdom
- Ubuntu apt - liburdfdom-world4.0 - 4.0.0-0ubuntu1: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: liburdfdom-world4.0 from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | URDF DOM - world library | https://github.com/ros/urdfdom


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/urdfdom.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/urdfdom.yml)


## Quellen

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph