installing proprietary nvidia drivers Kali 2016.2

[Steve Dunster]

Hi all,
I was wondering if you can help me writing a tutorial on how to install Nvidia drivers on Kali Linux 2016.2
As there is no tutorial available, I'd like to write one up but I'm getting stuck on the very first step.
All other tutorials that I’ve found in regards of this topic a written for older versions of Kali Linux 2016.2, and simply don't apply here.

I have following setup:
lspci | grep ‘VGA’
>> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GT218 [GeForce 210] (rev a2)
more /proc/cpuinfo
>> Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4930K CPU @ 3.40GHz


I executed the following steps to prepare the system, if unusual
the output can be found underneath the command indented by one tab


1: (update sources)
echo "deb http://http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling main contrib non-free" >> /etc/apt/sources.list"

2: (fully update system)
apt-get update && apt-get upgrade -y && apt-get dist-upgrade -y

3: (Install headers)
apt-get install -y linux-headers-$(uname -r)
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package linux-headers-4.6.0-kali1-amd64
E: Couldn't find any package by glob 'linux-headers-4.6.0-kali1-amd64'
E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'linux-headers-4.6.0-kali1-amd64'


And step 3: is where i got stuck, any idea what I need to do?


Any help would be appreciated as I'm sure there's other people that are wondering how to install Nvidia proprietary drivers on Kali Linux 2016.2




Thanks

[pedropt]

Already exists many tutorials on the web in how to install proprietary nvidia drivers on kali .
https://www.blackmoreops.com/2014/03...er-kali-linux/

But sources list of kali sana 2.0 should have all these repositories :

deb http://old.kali.org/kali sana main non-free contrib
deb-src http://old.kali.org/kali sana main non-free contrib
deb http://http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling main contrib non-free
deb-src http://http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling main contrib non-free

the "lspci | grep ‘VGA’" is just a command to make you sure that you are using an nvidia card and witch model .
After that point you can go directly to nvidia website and download the drivers , then extract them and run them on console mode with gdm3 service shutdown .

[aetos]

"""gdm3 service shutdown"" is not work

[Steve Dunster]

got to the next step by adding lines above to sources.list. Now stuck at this step

apt-get install nvidia-kernel-dkms
>Reading package lists... Done
>Building dependency tree
>Reading state information... Done
>Package nvidia-kernel-dkms is not available, but is referred to by another package.

I found the following source package on debian website which includes my graphics card

packages.debian.org/sid/nvidia-legacy-340xx-driver
but how do I add that to my sources.list

Or where can i find the drivers on nvidia website, i don't think they list them anymore, i've spent all morning to find the right driver for my card, but can't seem to find them



Please help

[Steve Dunster]

Hello again,
I managed to render my installation of kali linux 2016.2 useless, so I re-installed it, and started
the process over again, following the tutorial found under:
https://www.blackmoreops.com/2014/03...er-kali-linux/


Here are the steps outlined which can be found in that tutorial.


echo "deb http://http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling main contrib non-free" >> etc/apt/sources.list
apt-get update && apt-get upgrade -y && apt-get dist-upgrade -y
apt-get install -y aptitude
aptitude -r install linux-headers-$(uname -r)
apt-get install nvidia-kernel-$(uname -r)
aptitude install nvidia-kernel-dkms
aptitude install nvidia-xconfig
nvidia-xconfig
reboot



Since the installion stalled again on the following step,

aptitude -r install linux-headers-$(uname -r)

with following output
> Couldn't find any package whose name or description matched "linux-headers-4.6.0-kali1-amd64"
> Unable to apply some actions, aborting

I followed @pedropt advice and added the recommended repositories to /etc/apt/sources.list
echo "deb http://old.kali.org/kali sana main non-free contrib" >> /etc/apt/sources.list
echo "deb-src http://old.kali.org/kali sana main non-free contrib" >> /etc/apt/sources.list
echo "deb http://http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling main contrib non-free" >> /etc/apt/sources.list
echo "deb-src http://http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling main contrib non-free" >> /etc/apt/sources.list

and retried that step, but it still fails and shows the error. I'm totally stuck at this point and I'm not sure what to try next

I figured I have to download the driver manually from NVIDIA
this is the file I downloaded "NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-304.132.run" it is about 69.4 MB large

This is the Info about that driver package:
LINUX X64 (AMD64/EM64T) DISPLAY DRIVER
Version: 304.132
Release Date: 2016.9.26
Operating System: Linux 64-bit
Language: English (US)
File Size: 66.21 MB

Supported Products reads:
...
GeForce 200 Series:
GeForce GTX 295, GeForce GTX 285, GeForce GTX 280, GeForce GTX 275, GeForce GTX 260, GeForce GTS 250,
GeForce GTS 240, GeForce GT 230, GeForce GT 240, GeForce GT 220, GeForce G210, GeForce 210, GeForce 205
...

here is the link
http://www.nvidia.com/content/Driver...s&type=GeForce

So my GeForce 210 is supported by this driver package, but how do I install it manuall and after which step should I do so?




Please help! I will compile everything into a tutorial, so other who have the same errors with kali linux 2016.2 are helped too.


Thanks