How to Install and Uninstall glx-alternative-nvidia Package on Kali Linux

Last updated: November 01,2024

1. Install "glx-alternative-nvidia" package

Please follow the guidelines below to install glx-alternative-nvidia on Kali Linux


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                glx-alternative-nvidia
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "glx-alternative-nvidia" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to uninstall glx-alternative-nvidia on Kali Linux:


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the glx-alternative-nvidia package on Kali Linux

Package: glx-alternative-nvidia
Source: glx-alternatives
Version: 1.2.2
Installed-Size: 43
Maintainer: Debian NVIDIA Maintainers
Architecture: amd64
Depends: update-glx (= 1.2.2), glx-diversions (= 1.2.2), glx-alternative-mesa
Pre-Depends: dpkg (>= 1.17.21)
Suggests: nvidia-driver | nvidia-driver-any
Breaks: bumblebee-nvidia (<< 3.2.1-10~), nvidia-alternative (<< 390.67-3~), nvidia-alternative-legacy-173xx (<< 304), nvidia-alternative-legacy-71xx (<< 304), nvidia-alternative-legacy-96xx (<< 304), nvidia-legacy-304xx-alternative (<< 304.137-7~), nvidia-legacy-304xx-driver (<< 304.137-7~), nvidia-legacy-340xx-alternative (<< 340.93-2~), xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-legacy-304xx (<< 304.137-7~)
Size: 5776
SHA256: 843665145b3a76260ae715567bbabca209f08a98420e33a1abdcf49992060f21
SHA1: 94d9f4377549076e4d2c3daf382e28c1756983cd
MD5sum: 8fad8387297f91322f1dca40b733b6b0
Description: allows the selection of NVIDIA as GLX provider
In setups with several GLX providers (e.g. the free MESA implementation and
proprietary graphics hardware vendor implementations) this metapackage
allows one to switch to the non-free NVIDIA driver and libraries.
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Use 'update-glx --config glx' to select an implementation.
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This package does not depend on the corresponding NVIDIA libraries.
In order to install the NVIDIA driver and libraries, install the
nvidia-driver package instead.
Description-md5:
Multi-Arch: foreign
Tag: role::shared-lib
Section: contrib/libs
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/contrib/g/glx-alternatives/glx-alternative-nvidia_1.2.2_amd64.deb