How To Install nvidia-settings-legacy-390xx on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install nvidia-settings-legacy-390xx
on Kali Linux.
What is nvidia-settings-legacy-390xx
nvidia-settings-legacy-390xx is:
The nvidia-settings utility is a tool for configuring the NVIDIA Linux graphics driver. It operates by communicating with the NVIDIA X driver, querying and updating state as appropriate. This communication is done with the NV-CONTROL X extension.
Values such as brightness and gamma, XVideo attributes, temperature, and OpenGL settings can be queried and configured via nvidia-settings.
There are three methods to install nvidia-settings-legacy-390xx
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-settings-legacy-390xx 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-settings-legacy-390xx
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install nvidia-settings-legacy-390xx
Install nvidia-settings-legacy-390xx Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install nvidia-settings-legacy-390xx
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install nvidia-settings-legacy-390xx
Install nvidia-settings-legacy-390xx 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-settings-legacy-390xx
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install nvidia-settings-legacy-390xx
How To Uninstall nvidia-settings-legacy-390xx on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the nvidia-settings-legacy-390xx
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove nvidia-settings-legacy-390xx
Uninstall nvidia-settings-legacy-390xx And Its Dependencies
To uninstall nvidia-settings-legacy-390xx
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove nvidia-settings-legacy-390xx
Remove nvidia-settings-legacy-390xx Configurations and Data
To remove nvidia-settings-legacy-390xx
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge nvidia-settings-legacy-390xx
Remove nvidia-settings-legacy-390xx configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove nvidia-settings-legacy-390xx
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge nvidia-settings-legacy-390xx
Dependencies
nvidia-settings-legacy-390xx have the following dependencies:
- nvidia-installer-cleanup
- nvidia-legacy-390xx-alternative
- libc6
- libcairo2
- libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0
- libglib2.0-0
- libgtk-3-0
- libjansson4
- libpango-1.0-0
- libpangocairo-1.0-0
- libx11-6
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install nvidia-settings-legacy-390xx
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.