How To Install icc-profiles-free on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install icc-profiles-free on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is icc-profiles-free
icc-profiles-free is:
Color management allows controlled conversion between color representation of input and output devices and color spaces. ICC profiles are an important part of color management. They are data files that represent mappings between the input or output color space of a particular device and the device-agnostic profile connection space (PCS) in accordance with the standards set by the International Color Consortium (ICC). This package contains a number of high quality ICC color profiles for use with color profile aware software such as Scribus, Gimp, CinePaint, Krita, or Digikam. In general this package is useful if the software using it was built against a color management support library such as liblcms1 or liblcms2-2. In some software such as Scribus you have to explicitly enable color managemenent in the preferences to be able to use these profiles. The sampleicc-tools package contains tools that can be used to manipulate and query the icc profiles in Debian.
The color profiles in this package are available under free software licenses. Additional profiles under non-free licenses are available in the icc-profiles package. Task: ubuntustudio-publishing, ubuntustudio-photography
There are three methods to install icc-profiles-free on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install icc-profiles-free Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install icc-profiles-free using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install icc-profiles-free
Install icc-profiles-free Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install icc-profiles-free using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install icc-profiles-free
Install icc-profiles-free 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install icc-profiles-free using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install icc-profiles-free
How To Uninstall icc-profiles-free on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the icc-profiles-free package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove icc-profiles-free
Uninstall icc-profiles-free And Its Dependencies
To uninstall icc-profiles-free and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove icc-profiles-free
Remove icc-profiles-free Configurations and Data
To remove icc-profiles-free configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge icc-profiles-free
Remove icc-profiles-free configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove icc-profiles-free configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge icc-profiles-free
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install icc-profiles-free package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
