How To Install nvidia-cuda-gdb on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install nvidia-cuda-gdb on Kali Linux.

What is nvidia-cuda-gdb

nvidia-cuda-gdb 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-gdb debugger.

There are three methods to install nvidia-cuda-gdb 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 nvidia-cuda-gdb Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install nvidia-cuda-gdb using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install nvidia-cuda-gdb

Install nvidia-cuda-gdb Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install nvidia-cuda-gdb using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install nvidia-cuda-gdb

Install nvidia-cuda-gdb 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 nvidia-cuda-gdb using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install nvidia-cuda-gdb

How To Uninstall nvidia-cuda-gdb on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the nvidia-cuda-gdb package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove nvidia-cuda-gdb

Uninstall nvidia-cuda-gdb And Its Dependencies

To uninstall nvidia-cuda-gdb and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove nvidia-cuda-gdb

Remove nvidia-cuda-gdb Configurations and Data

To remove nvidia-cuda-gdb configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge nvidia-cuda-gdb

Remove nvidia-cuda-gdb configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove nvidia-cuda-gdb configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge nvidia-cuda-gdb

Dependencies

nvidia-cuda-gdb have the following dependencies:

• libbabeltrace1
• libc6
• libexpat1
• libgcc-s1
• libipt2
• liblzma5
• libncursesw6
• libpython3.9
• libreadline8
• libstdc++6
• libtinfo6
• zlib1g

References

• nvidia-cuda-gdb website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install nvidia-cuda-gdb package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.