How To Install boinc-client-opencl on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install boinc-client-opencl on Kali Linux.
What is boinc-client-opencl
The Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) is a software platform for distributed computing: several initiatives of various scientific disciplines all compete for the idle time of desktop computers. The developers’ web site at the University of Berkeley serves as a common portal to the otherwise independently run projects.
Regular users (righteously) often find it an unbearable nuisance to care for the configuration of BOINC for the OpenCL-savvy AMD/ATI graphics cards. This package adds a series of dependencies from the non-free section to the regular boinc package. This also meant this binary package to be redistributed in the contrib section of Debian.
There are three ways to install boinc-client-opencl 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 boinc-client-opencl Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install boinc-client-opencl using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install boinc-client-opencl
Install boinc-client-opencl Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install boinc-client-opencl using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install boinc-client-opencl
Install boinc-client-opencl 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 Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install boinc-client-opencl using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install boinc-client-opencl
How To Uninstall boinc-client-opencl on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the boinc-client-opencl package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove boinc-client-opencl
Uninstall boinc-client-opencl And Its Dependencies
To uninstall boinc-client-opencl and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove boinc-client-opencl
Remove boinc-client-opencl Configurations and Data
To remove boinc-client-opencl configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge boinc-client-opencl
Remove boinc-client-opencl configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove boinc-client-opencl configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge boinc-client-opencl
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install boinc-client-opencl using different package management tools like apt, apt-get and aptitude.