How To Install kmscube on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install kmscube
on Kali Linux.
What is kmscube
kmscube is:
kmscube is an example application that displays a rotating cube to demonstrate the usage of KMS, GBM and EGL. It can be used to test kernel mode setting and Mesas DRM drivers.
There are three methods to install kmscube
on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install kmscube Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install kmscube
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install kmscube
Install kmscube Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install kmscube
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install kmscube
Install kmscube Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install kmscube
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install kmscube
How To Uninstall kmscube on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the kmscube
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove kmscube
Uninstall kmscube And Its Dependencies
To uninstall kmscube
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove kmscube
Remove kmscube Configurations and Data
To remove kmscube
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge kmscube
Remove kmscube configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove kmscube
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge kmscube
Dependencies
kmscube have the following dependencies:
- libc6
- libdrm2
- libegl1
- libgbm1
- libgles2
- libglib2.0-0
- libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0
- libgstreamer1.0-0
- libpng16-16
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install kmscube
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.