How To Install colord on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install colord on CentOS 7. colord is Color daemon

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install colord on CentOS 7.

What is colord

colord is a low level system activated daemon that maps color devices to color profiles in the system context.

We can use yum or dnf to install colord on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install colord.

Install colord on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install colord using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install colord

Install colord on CentOS 7 Using dnf

If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first. Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache

After updating yum database, We can install colord using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install colord

How To Uninstall colord on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the colord package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove colord

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install colord on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.