How To Install icc-profiles on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install icc-profiles on Kali Linux.

What is icc-profiles

icc-profiles is:

Color management allows controlled conversion between color representation of input and output devices and color spaces. ICC profiles are an important part of color management. They are data files that represent mappings between the input or output color space of a particular device and the device-agnostic profile connection space (PCS) in accordance with the standards set by the International Color Consortium (ICC). This package contains a number of high quality ICC color profiles for use with color profile aware software such as Scribus, Gimp, CinePaint, Krita, or Digikam. In general this package is useful if the software using it was built against a color management support library such as liblcms1 or liblcms2-2. In some software such as Scribus you have to explicitly enable color managemenent in the preferences to be able to use these profiles.

There are three methods to install icc-profiles 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 icc-profiles Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install icc-profiles

Install icc-profiles Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install icc-profiles

Install icc-profiles 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.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install icc-profiles using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install icc-profiles

How To Uninstall icc-profiles on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the icc-profiles package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove icc-profiles

Uninstall icc-profiles And Its Dependencies

To uninstall icc-profiles and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove icc-profiles

Remove icc-profiles Configurations and Data

To remove icc-profiles configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge icc-profiles

Remove icc-profiles configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge icc-profiles

Dependencies

icc-profiles have the following dependencies:

References

• icc-profiles website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install icc-profiles package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.