How To Install gnome-colors on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-colors on Debian 9. gnome-colors is set of GNOME icon themes

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-colors on Debian 9.

What is gnome-colors

gnome-colors is:

GNOME-Colors is a set of GNOME icon themes, with some inspiration from Tango, Elementary, Discovery, Tango Generator and others.

Its goal is to create an easy way for anyone to make their desktop consistently match their moods, wallpapers, laptop colors, etc.

The icons were designed to match the Shiki-Colors GTK+ Themes and their additional artwork.

This package provides seven variations of the GNOME-Colors icon theme:

GNOME-Brave (Blue), GNOME-Dust (Chocolate), GNOME-Human (Orange), GNOME-Illustrious (Pink), GNOME-Noble (Purple), GNOME-Wine (Red), and GNOME-Wise (Green)

There are three methods to install gnome-colors on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install gnome-colors Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install gnome-colors using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install gnome-colors

Install gnome-colors Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install gnome-colors using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install gnome-colors

Install gnome-colors 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 gnome-colors using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install gnome-colors

How To Uninstall gnome-colors on Debian 9

To uninstall only the gnome-colors package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove gnome-colors

Uninstall gnome-colors And Its Dependencies

To uninstall gnome-colors and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove gnome-colors

Remove gnome-colors Configurations and Data

To remove gnome-colors configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge gnome-colors

Remove gnome-colors configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove gnome-colors configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gnome-colors

Dependencies

gnome-colors have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-colors package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.