How To Install libnvidia-egl-wayland-dev on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libnvidia-egl-wayland-dev on Kali Linux.

What is libnvidia-egl-wayland-dev

libnvidia-egl-wayland-dev is:

This is a work-in-progress implementation of a EGL (Embedded-System Graphics Library) External Platform library to add client-side Wayland support to EGL on top of EGLDevice and EGLStream families of extensions.

This library implements an EGL External Platform interface to work along with EGL drivers that support the external platform mechanism. More information about EGL External platforms and the interface can be found at:

https://github.com/NVIDIA/eglexternalplatform

This package contains the development files.

There are three methods to install libnvidia-egl-wayland-dev 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 libnvidia-egl-wayland-dev Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libnvidia-egl-wayland-dev using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libnvidia-egl-wayland-dev

Install libnvidia-egl-wayland-dev Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libnvidia-egl-wayland-dev using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libnvidia-egl-wayland-dev

Install libnvidia-egl-wayland-dev 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 libnvidia-egl-wayland-dev using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libnvidia-egl-wayland-dev

How To Uninstall libnvidia-egl-wayland-dev on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the libnvidia-egl-wayland-dev package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libnvidia-egl-wayland-dev

Uninstall libnvidia-egl-wayland-dev And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libnvidia-egl-wayland-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libnvidia-egl-wayland-dev

Remove libnvidia-egl-wayland-dev Configurations and Data

To remove libnvidia-egl-wayland-dev configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libnvidia-egl-wayland-dev

Remove libnvidia-egl-wayland-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libnvidia-egl-wayland-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libnvidia-egl-wayland-dev

Dependencies

libnvidia-egl-wayland-dev have the following dependencies:

• libnvidia-egl-wayland1

References

• libnvidia-egl-wayland-dev website

Summary

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