How To Install libcurand10 on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install libcurand10 on Kali Linux. libcurand10 is NVIDIA cuRAND Library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libcurand10 on Kali Linux.

What is libcurand10

libcurand10 is:

The Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA) enables NVIDIA graphics processing units (GPUs) to be used for massively parallel general purpose computation.

The cuRAND library provides facilities that focus on the simple and efficient generation of high-quality pseudorandom and quasirandom numbers. A pseudorandom sequence of numbers satisfies most of the statistical properties of a truly random sequence but is generated by a deterministic algorithm. A quasirandom sequence of n-dimensional points is generated by a deterministic algorithm designed to fill an n-dimensional space evenly.

This package contains the cuRAND runtime library.

There are three methods to install libcurand10 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 libcurand10 Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libcurand10 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libcurand10

Install libcurand10 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libcurand10 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libcurand10

Install libcurand10 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 libcurand10 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libcurand10

How To Uninstall libcurand10 on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the libcurand10 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libcurand10

Uninstall libcurand10 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libcurand10 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libcurand10

Remove libcurand10 Configurations and Data

To remove libcurand10 configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libcurand10

Remove libcurand10 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libcurand10 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libcurand10

Dependencies

libcurand10 have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libcurand10 package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.