DisplayLink Kali and Dell laptop

Placbeo · 12-21-2016, 08:56 AM

Hello everyone,
I have Dell XPS with Kali has the main operation system and 2 external Dell screens.
Yesterday I got my DisplayLink, when trying to install the Ubuntu drivers I got this:

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Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing DisplayLink Linux Driver 1.2.65  100%  
DisplayLink Linux Software 1.2.65 install script called: install
Distribution discovered: Kali GNU/Linux Rolling
Unsatisfied dependencies. Missing component: Linux headers for running kernel, 4.8.0-kali2-amd64.
This is a fatal error, cannot install DisplayLink Linux Software.

I started researching online for the problem, found a few solutions, including this:
https://adangel.org/2016/09/26/displ...-intel-debian/

When it said:

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It’s time to dissect the displaylink download. The downloaded archive “DisplayLink USB Graphics Software for Ubuntu 1.2.zip” contains the binary “displaylink-driver-1.2.58.run”. This in turn is itself an archive which contains the install script that checks for the kernel headers. With ./displaylink-driver-1.2.58.run --help you can find out that with ./displaylink-driver-1.2.58.run --keep --noexec --target displaylink-driver-1.2.58 the install scripts will be extracted to the subdirectory displaylink-driver-1.2.58/ without executing the script. Now you can modify the install script displaylink-driver-1.2.58/displaylink-installer.sh. In the function “check_requirements()” you see, that the script checks for the existence of the file /lib/modules/4.6.0-1-amd64/build/Kconfig. If it doesn’t exist, it spits out “Unsatisfied dependencies. Missing component: Linux headers for running kernel, 4.6.0-1-amd64”. I simply commented out this line as I know, I have the kernel headers installed. Now I can run the install script manually with ./displaylink-installer.sh install.

So that's what I done, extract the file and comment the line.
Now it doesn't even try to install:

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DisplayLink Linux Software 1.2.65 install script called: 
Distribution discovered: Kali GNU/Linux Rolling

It doesn't countine any further...
I saw this git:
https://github.com/AdnanHodzic/displaylink-debian
I download it and tried to install got this:

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Preparing for install

Archive:  DisplayLink_Ubuntu_1.2.65.zip
  inflating: 1.2.65/displaylink-driver-1.2.65.run  
  inflating: 1.2.65/LICENSE          
Creating directory displaylink-driver-1.2.65
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing DisplayLink Linux Driver 1.2.65  100%  

-------------------------------------------------------------------

Installing driver version: 1.2.65

DisplayLink Linux Software 1.2.65 install script called: install
Distribution discovered: Kali GNU/Linux Rolling
Unsatisfied dependencies. Missing component: Linux headers for running kernel, 4.8.0-kali2-amd64.
This is a fatal error, cannot install DisplayLink Linux Software.

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Performing post install steps

ln: failed to create symbolic link '/opt/displaylink/libstdc++.so.6': No such file or directory
sed: can't read /lib/systemd/system/dlm.service: No such file or directory
Failed to enable unit: File dlm.service: No such file or directory

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Performing clean-up
Removing redundant: "DisplayLink_Ubuntu_1.2.65.zip" file
Removing redundant: "1.2.65" directory

-------------------------------------------------------------------

Install complete, please reboot to apply the changes

This is the output of xrandr:

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Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1920 x 1080, maximum 8192 x 8192
eDP-1 connected primary 1920x1080+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 294mm x 165mm
   1920x1080     59.93*+
   1680x1050     59.95    59.88  
   1600x1024     60.17  
   1400x1050     59.98  
   1280x1024     60.02  
   1440x900      59.89  
   1280x960      60.00  
   1360x768      59.80    59.96  
   1152x864      60.00  
   1024x768      60.04    60.00  
   960x720       60.00  
   928x696       60.05  
   896x672       60.01  
   960x600       60.00  
   960x540       59.99  
   800x600       60.00    60.32    56.25  
   840x525       60.01    59.88  
   800x512       60.17  
   700x525       59.98  
   640x512       60.02  
   720x450       59.89  
   640x480       60.00    59.94  
   680x384       59.80    59.96  
   576x432       60.06  
   512x384       60.00  
   400x300       60.32    56.34  
   320x240       60.05  
DP-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
HDMI-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)

Any Idea else what I can do ?