How To Install libcolord-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libcolord-dev
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is libcolord-dev
libcolord-dev 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 development files required to build programs against the libcolord library.
There are three methods to install libcolord-dev
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libcolord-dev Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libcolord-dev
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libcolord-dev
Install libcolord-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libcolord-dev
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libcolord-dev
Install libcolord-dev 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install libcolord-dev
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libcolord-dev
How To Uninstall libcolord-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the libcolord-dev
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libcolord-dev
Uninstall libcolord-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libcolord-dev
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libcolord-dev
Remove libcolord-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libcolord-dev
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libcolord-dev
Remove libcolord-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libcolord-dev
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libcolord-dev
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libcolord-dev
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.