How To Install glx-alternative-mesa on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install glx-alternative-mesa
on Kali Linux.
What is glx-alternative-mesa
glx-alternative-mesa is:
In setups with several GLX providers (e.g. the free MESA implementation and proprietary graphics hardware vendor implementations) this metapackage allows one to switch back to MESA.
Use ‘update-glx –config glx’ to select an implementation.
This package does not depend on the corresponding MESA libraries. In order to install the MESA libraries, install the libgl1-mesa-glx package instead.
There are three methods to install glx-alternative-mesa
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 glx-alternative-mesa Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install glx-alternative-mesa
using apt-get
by running the following command:
Install glx-alternative-mesa Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install glx-alternative-mesa
using apt
by running the following command:
Install glx-alternative-mesa 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.
After updating apt database, We can install glx-alternative-mesa
using aptitude
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall glx-alternative-mesa on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the glx-alternative-mesa
package we can use the following command:
Uninstall glx-alternative-mesa And Its Dependencies
To uninstall glx-alternative-mesa
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
Remove glx-alternative-mesa Configurations and Data
To remove glx-alternative-mesa
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
Remove glx-alternative-mesa configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove glx-alternative-mesa
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
Dependencies
glx-alternative-mesa have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install glx-alternative-mesa
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.