How To Install xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-tesla-418 on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-tesla-418
on Kali Linux.
What is xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-tesla-418
xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-tesla-418 is:
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.
Please see the nvidia-tesla-418-kernel-dkms or nvidia-tesla-418-kernel-source packages for building the kernel module required by this package. This will provide nvidia-tesla-418-kernel-418.197.02.
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-driver/README.txt.gz for a complete list of supported GPUs and PCI IDs.
There are three methods to install xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-tesla-418
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 xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-tesla-418 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-tesla-418
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-tesla-418
Install xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-tesla-418 Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-tesla-418
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-tesla-418
Install xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-tesla-418 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 xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-tesla-418
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-tesla-418
How To Uninstall xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-tesla-418 on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-tesla-418
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-tesla-418
Uninstall xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-tesla-418 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-tesla-418
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-tesla-418
Remove xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-tesla-418 Configurations and Data
To remove xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-tesla-418
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-tesla-418
Remove xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-tesla-418 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-tesla-418
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-tesla-418
Dependencies
xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-tesla-418 have the following dependencies:
- nvidia-installer-cleanup
- libnvidia-tesla-418-glcore
- nvidia-tesla-418-alternative
- nvidia-support
- xorg-video-abi-24
- xserver-xorg-core
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-tesla-418
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.