How To Install spirv-headers on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install spirv-headers on Kali Linux.

What is spirv-headers

spirv-headers is:

This package includes:

• Header files for various languages
• JSON files describing the grammar for the SPIR-V core instruction set and the extended instruction sets.
• The XML registry file.

For more info, see https://github.com/KhronosGroup/SPIRV-Headers

There are three methods to install spirv-headers 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 spirv-headers Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install spirv-headers using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install spirv-headers

Install spirv-headers Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install spirv-headers using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install spirv-headers

Install spirv-headers 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 spirv-headers using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install spirv-headers

How To Uninstall spirv-headers on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the spirv-headers package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove spirv-headers

Uninstall spirv-headers And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove spirv-headers

Remove spirv-headers Configurations and Data

To remove spirv-headers configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge spirv-headers

Remove spirv-headers configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove spirv-headers configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge spirv-headers

Dependencies

spirv-headers have the following dependencies:

References

• spirv-headers website

Summary

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