How To Install libnvidia-tesla-460-cuda1 on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install libnvidia-tesla-460-cuda1 on Kali Linux. libnvidia-tesla-460-cuda1 is NVIDIA CUDA Driver Library (Tesla 460 version)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libnvidia-tesla-460-cuda1 on Kali Linux.

What is libnvidia-tesla-460-cuda1

libnvidia-tesla-460-cuda1 is:

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

This package contains the CUDA Driver API library for low-level CUDA programming.

Supported NVIDIA devices include GPUs starting from GeForce 8 and Quadro FX series, as well as the Tesla computing processors.

Please see the nvidia-tesla-460-kernel-dkms or nvidia-tesla-460-kernel-source packages for building the kernel module required by this package. This will provide nvidia-tesla-460-kernel-460.73.01.

There are three methods to install libnvidia-tesla-460-cuda1 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-tesla-460-cuda1 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-tesla-460-cuda1 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libnvidia-tesla-460-cuda1

Install libnvidia-tesla-460-cuda1 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libnvidia-tesla-460-cuda1 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libnvidia-tesla-460-cuda1

Install libnvidia-tesla-460-cuda1 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-tesla-460-cuda1 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libnvidia-tesla-460-cuda1

How To Uninstall libnvidia-tesla-460-cuda1 on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the libnvidia-tesla-460-cuda1 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libnvidia-tesla-460-cuda1

Uninstall libnvidia-tesla-460-cuda1 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libnvidia-tesla-460-cuda1 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libnvidia-tesla-460-cuda1

Remove libnvidia-tesla-460-cuda1 Configurations and Data

To remove libnvidia-tesla-460-cuda1 configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libnvidia-tesla-460-cuda1

Remove libnvidia-tesla-460-cuda1 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libnvidia-tesla-460-cuda1 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libnvidia-tesla-460-cuda1

Dependencies

libnvidia-tesla-460-cuda1 have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libnvidia-tesla-460-cuda1 package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.