How To Install mesa-vdpau-drivers on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mesa-vdpau-drivers
on Kali Linux.
What is mesa-vdpau-drivers
mesa-vdpau-drivers is:
These libraries provide the Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix. They provide accelerated video playback (incl. H.264) and video post-processing for the supported graphics cards.
This package enables support for VDPAU for some gallium drivers.
There are three methods to install mesa-vdpau-drivers
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 mesa-vdpau-drivers Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install mesa-vdpau-drivers
using apt-get
by running the following command:
Install mesa-vdpau-drivers Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install mesa-vdpau-drivers
using apt
by running the following command:
Install mesa-vdpau-drivers 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.
After updating apt database, We can install mesa-vdpau-drivers
using aptitude
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall mesa-vdpau-drivers on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the mesa-vdpau-drivers
package we can use the following command:
Uninstall mesa-vdpau-drivers And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mesa-vdpau-drivers
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
Remove mesa-vdpau-drivers Configurations and Data
To remove mesa-vdpau-drivers
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
Remove mesa-vdpau-drivers configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mesa-vdpau-drivers
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
Dependencies
mesa-vdpau-drivers have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mesa-vdpau-drivers
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.