How To Install nvidia-tesla-418-kernel-dkms on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install nvidia-tesla-418-kernel-dkms on Kali Linux.
What is nvidia-tesla-418-kernel-dkms
nvidia-tesla-418-kernel-dkms is:
This package builds the NVIDIA Xorg binary kernel module needed by nvidia-tesla-418-driver, using DKMS. Provided that you have the kernel header packages installed, the kernel module will be built for your running kernel and automatically rebuilt for any new kernel headers that are installed.
The NVIDIA binary driver provides optimized hardware acceleration of OpenGL/GLX/EGL/GLES applications via a direct-rendering X Server for graphics cards using NVIDIA chip sets.
This version only supports GeForce, Quadro, NVS, Tesla, … GPUs based on the Kepler, Maxwell, Volta, or newer architectures. Look at the legacy packages for older cards.
See /usr/share/doc/nvidia-tesla-418-kernel-dkms/README.txt.gz for a complete list of supported GPUs and PCI IDs.
This package contains the blobs for building kernel modules for the amd64 architecture. Building the kernel modules has been tested up to Linux 5.10.
There are three methods to install nvidia-tesla-418-kernel-dkms 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-tesla-418-kernel-dkms Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install nvidia-tesla-418-kernel-dkms using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install nvidia-tesla-418-kernel-dkmsInstall nvidia-tesla-418-kernel-dkms Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install nvidia-tesla-418-kernel-dkms using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install nvidia-tesla-418-kernel-dkmsInstall nvidia-tesla-418-kernel-dkms 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 updateAfter updating apt database, We can install nvidia-tesla-418-kernel-dkms using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install nvidia-tesla-418-kernel-dkmsHow To Uninstall nvidia-tesla-418-kernel-dkms on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the nvidia-tesla-418-kernel-dkms package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove nvidia-tesla-418-kernel-dkmsUninstall nvidia-tesla-418-kernel-dkms And Its Dependencies
To uninstall nvidia-tesla-418-kernel-dkms and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove nvidia-tesla-418-kernel-dkmsRemove nvidia-tesla-418-kernel-dkms Configurations and Data
To remove nvidia-tesla-418-kernel-dkms configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge nvidia-tesla-418-kernel-dkmsRemove nvidia-tesla-418-kernel-dkms configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove nvidia-tesla-418-kernel-dkms configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge nvidia-tesla-418-kernel-dkmsDependencies
nvidia-tesla-418-kernel-dkms have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install nvidia-tesla-418-kernel-dkms package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
