How To Install nvidia-cuda-toolkit-gcc on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install nvidia-cuda-toolkit-gcc
on Kali Linux.
What is nvidia-cuda-toolkit-gcc
nvidia-cuda-toolkit-gcc is:
The Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA) enables NVIDIA graphics processing units (GPUs) to be used for massively parallel general purpose computation.
This package provides the /usr/bin/cuda-gcc, /usr/bin/cuda-g++ symlinks to simplify building packages that need to be built with a CUDA-compatible compiler.
There are three methods to install nvidia-cuda-toolkit-gcc
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-toolkit-gcc Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install nvidia-cuda-toolkit-gcc
using apt-get
by running the following command:
Install nvidia-cuda-toolkit-gcc Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install nvidia-cuda-toolkit-gcc
using apt
by running the following command:
Install nvidia-cuda-toolkit-gcc 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 nvidia-cuda-toolkit-gcc
using aptitude
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall nvidia-cuda-toolkit-gcc on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the nvidia-cuda-toolkit-gcc
package we can use the following command:
Uninstall nvidia-cuda-toolkit-gcc And Its Dependencies
To uninstall nvidia-cuda-toolkit-gcc
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
Remove nvidia-cuda-toolkit-gcc Configurations and Data
To remove nvidia-cuda-toolkit-gcc
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
Remove nvidia-cuda-toolkit-gcc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove nvidia-cuda-toolkit-gcc
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
Dependencies
nvidia-cuda-toolkit-gcc have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install nvidia-cuda-toolkit-gcc
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.