How To Install libnvcuvid1 on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libnvcuvid1 on Kali Linux.
What is libnvcuvid1
libnvcuvid1 is:
The Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA) enables NVIDIA graphics processing units (GPUs) to be used for massively parallel general purpose computation.
The NVIDIA CUDA Video Decoder (NVCUVID) library provides an interface to hardware video decoding capabilities on NVIDIA GPUs with CUDA.
This package contains the nvcuvid runtime library.
There are three methods to install libnvcuvid1 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 libnvcuvid1 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install libnvcuvid1 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libnvcuvid1Install libnvcuvid1 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install libnvcuvid1 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libnvcuvid1Install libnvcuvid1 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 updateAfter updating apt database, We can install libnvcuvid1 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libnvcuvid1How To Uninstall libnvcuvid1 on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the libnvcuvid1 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libnvcuvid1Uninstall libnvcuvid1 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libnvcuvid1 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libnvcuvid1Remove libnvcuvid1 Configurations and Data
To remove libnvcuvid1 configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libnvcuvid1Remove libnvcuvid1 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libnvcuvid1 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libnvcuvid1Dependencies
libnvcuvid1 have the following dependencies:
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libnvcuvid1 package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.