How To Install nvidia-tesla-418-opencl-icd on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install nvidia-tesla-418-opencl-icd on Kali Linux. nvidia-tesla-418-opencl-icd is NVIDIA OpenCL installable client driver (ICD) (Tesla 418 version)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install nvidia-tesla-418-opencl-icd on Kali Linux.

What is nvidia-tesla-418-opencl-icd

nvidia-tesla-418-opencl-icd is:

OpenCL (Open Computing Language) is a multivendor open standard for general-purpose parallel programming of heterogeneous systems that include CPUs, GPUs and other processors.

This package provides the NVIDIA installable client driver (ICD) for OpenCL which supports NVIDIA GPUs. This ICD supports OpenCL 1.x only.

There are three methods to install nvidia-tesla-418-opencl-icd 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-opencl-icd 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-tesla-418-opencl-icd using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install nvidia-tesla-418-opencl-icd

Install nvidia-tesla-418-opencl-icd Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install nvidia-tesla-418-opencl-icd using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install nvidia-tesla-418-opencl-icd

Install nvidia-tesla-418-opencl-icd 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-tesla-418-opencl-icd using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install nvidia-tesla-418-opencl-icd

How To Uninstall nvidia-tesla-418-opencl-icd on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the nvidia-tesla-418-opencl-icd package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove nvidia-tesla-418-opencl-icd

Uninstall nvidia-tesla-418-opencl-icd And Its Dependencies

To uninstall nvidia-tesla-418-opencl-icd 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-opencl-icd

Remove nvidia-tesla-418-opencl-icd Configurations and Data

To remove nvidia-tesla-418-opencl-icd configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge nvidia-tesla-418-opencl-icd

Remove nvidia-tesla-418-opencl-icd configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove nvidia-tesla-418-opencl-icd configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge nvidia-tesla-418-opencl-icd

Dependencies

nvidia-tesla-418-opencl-icd have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install nvidia-tesla-418-opencl-icd package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.