How To Install colord on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install colord
on Kali Linux.
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 Kali Linux. 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.
After updating apt database, We can install colord
using apt-get
by running the following command:
Install colord Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install colord
using apt
by running the following command:
Install colord Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install colord
using aptitude
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall colord on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the colord
package we can use the following command:
Uninstall colord And Its Dependencies
To uninstall colord
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
Remove colord Configurations and Data
To remove colord
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
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:
Dependencies
colord have the following dependencies:
- acl
- adduser
- colord-data
- policykit-1
- dconf-gsettings-backend
- libc6
- libcolord2
- libcolorhug2
- libdbus-1-3
- libglib2.0-0
- libgudev-1.0-0
- libgusb2
- liblcms2-2
- libpolkit-gobject-1-0
- libsane1
- libsqlite3-0
- libsystemd0
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install colord
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.