How To Install nvidia-cuda-mps on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is nvidia-cuda-mps

nvidia-cuda-mps is:

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

CUDA MPS is a feature that allows multiple CUDA processes to share a single GPU context. CUDA MPS should be transparent to CUDA programs.

CUDA MPS requires a device that supports Unified Virtual Address (UVA) and has compute capability SM 3.5 or higher. Pre-CUDA 4.0 APIs are not supported under CUDA MPS.

There are three methods to install nvidia-cuda-mps 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-mps 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-mps using apt-get by running the following command:

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

Install nvidia-cuda-mps Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install nvidia-cuda-mps

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

sudo aptitude -y install nvidia-cuda-mps

How To Uninstall nvidia-cuda-mps on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove nvidia-cuda-mps

Uninstall nvidia-cuda-mps And Its Dependencies

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

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

Remove nvidia-cuda-mps Configurations and Data

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

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

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

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

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

Dependencies

nvidia-cuda-mps have the following dependencies:

• libc6

References

• nvidia-cuda-mps website

Summary

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