How To Install colord on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install colord on Debian 10.
What is colord
colord is:
colord is a system service that makes it easy to manage, install and generate colour profiles to accurately colour manage input and output devices.
It provides a D-Bus API for system frameworks to query, a persistent data store, and a mechanism for session applications to set system policy.
This package contains the dbus-activated colord system daemon.
There are three methods to install colord 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 colord Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install colord using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install colord
Install colord Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install colord using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install colord
Install colord 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 colord using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install colord
How To Uninstall colord on Debian 10
To uninstall only the colord package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove colord
Uninstall colord And Its Dependencies
To uninstall colord and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove colord
Remove colord Configurations and Data
To remove colord configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge colord
Remove colord configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove colord configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge colord
Dependencies
colord have the following dependencies:
- libc6
- libcolord2
- libcolorhug2
- libdbus-1-3
- libglib2.0-0
- libgudev-1.0-0
- libgusb2
- liblcms2-2
- libpolkit-gobject-1-0
- libsane
- libsqlite3-0
- libsystemd0
- dconf-gsettings-backend
- adduser
- acl
- policykit-1
- colord-data
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install colord package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.