How To Install libnvidia-tesla-460-nvcuvid1 on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install libnvidia-tesla-460-nvcuvid1 on Kali Linux. libnvidia-tesla-460-nvcuvid1 is NVIDIA CUDA Video Decoder runtime library (Tesla 460 version)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libnvidia-tesla-460-nvcuvid1 on Kali Linux.

What is libnvidia-tesla-460-nvcuvid1

libnvidia-tesla-460-nvcuvid1 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 libnvidia-tesla-460-nvcuvid1 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-nvcuvid1 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-nvcuvid1 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libnvidia-tesla-460-nvcuvid1

Install libnvidia-tesla-460-nvcuvid1 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libnvidia-tesla-460-nvcuvid1 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libnvidia-tesla-460-nvcuvid1

Install libnvidia-tesla-460-nvcuvid1 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-nvcuvid1 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libnvidia-tesla-460-nvcuvid1

How To Uninstall libnvidia-tesla-460-nvcuvid1 on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the libnvidia-tesla-460-nvcuvid1 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libnvidia-tesla-460-nvcuvid1

Uninstall libnvidia-tesla-460-nvcuvid1 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libnvidia-tesla-460-nvcuvid1 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-nvcuvid1

Remove libnvidia-tesla-460-nvcuvid1 Configurations and Data

To remove libnvidia-tesla-460-nvcuvid1 configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libnvidia-tesla-460-nvcuvid1

Remove libnvidia-tesla-460-nvcuvid1 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libnvidia-tesla-460-nvcuvid1 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libnvidia-tesla-460-nvcuvid1

Dependencies

libnvidia-tesla-460-nvcuvid1 have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libnvidia-tesla-460-nvcuvid1 package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.