How To Install grabc on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install grabc on Debian 10.
What is grabc
grabc is:
grabc is simple but useful program to determine the color string in hex or in RGB components by clicking on a pixel on the screen. When this program is run, the mouse pointer is grabbed and changed to a cross hair and when the mouse is clicked, the color of the clicked pixel is written to stdout in hex and the R, G, B components are written to stderr.
This program can be useful when you see a color and want to use the color in xterm or your window manager’s border but no clue what the name of the color is. It’s silly to use a image processing software to find it out.
There are three methods to install grabc on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install grabc Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install grabc using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install grabc
Install grabc Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install grabc using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install grabc
Install grabc 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 grabc using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install grabc
How To Uninstall grabc on Debian 10
To uninstall only the grabc package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove grabc
Uninstall grabc And Its Dependencies
To uninstall grabc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove grabc
Remove grabc Configurations and Data
To remove grabc configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge grabc
Remove grabc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove grabc configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge grabc
Dependencies
grabc have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install grabc package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
