How To Install colorhug-client on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install colorhug-client
on Debian 9.
What is colorhug-client
colorhug-client is:
The Hughski ColorHug colorimeter is a low cost open-source hardware sensor used to calibrate screens.
This package includes the client tools which allows the user to upgrade the firmware on the sensor, set the color calibration matrix or to access the sensor.
Please note that this package does not provide calibration, you should install gnome-color-manager or argyll for this purpose.
There are three methods to install colorhug-client
on Debian 9. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install colorhug-client Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install colorhug-client
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install colorhug-client
Install colorhug-client Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install colorhug-client
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install colorhug-client
Install colorhug-client Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install colorhug-client
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install colorhug-client
How To Uninstall colorhug-client on Debian 9
To uninstall only the colorhug-client
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove colorhug-client
Uninstall colorhug-client And Its Dependencies
To uninstall colorhug-client
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove colorhug-client
Remove colorhug-client Configurations and Data
To remove colorhug-client
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge colorhug-client
Remove colorhug-client configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove colorhug-client
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge colorhug-client
Dependencies
colorhug-client have the following dependencies:
- libatk1.0-0
- libc6
- libcairo-gobject2
- libcairo2
- libcanberra-gtk3-0
- libcanberra0
- libcolord-gtk1
- libcolord2
- libcolorhug2
- libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0
- libglib2.0-0
- libgtk-3-0
- libgusb2
- libpango-1.0-0
- libpangocairo-1.0-0
- libsoup2.4-1
- libusb-1.0-0
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install colorhug-client
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.