How to Install and Uninstall colortest Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: January 25,2025

You can also install and uninstall the colortest on the following distributions in the same way, as they are all based on the Debian system

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "colortest" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to install colortest on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                colortest
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "colortest" package

Please follow the step by step instructions below to uninstall colortest on Debian 12 (Bookworm):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the colortest package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: colortest
Version: 20110624-9
Installed-Size: 39
Maintainer: Micheal Waltz
Architecture: all
Depends: perl:any (>= 5), bash (>= 3)
Description: utilities to test color capabilities of terminal
Description-md5: 647a898b4902a7de25527f16b9567465
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: https://invisible-island.net/xterm/
Tag: implemented-in::perl, implemented-in::shell, interface::commandline,
role::program, scope::utility
Section: utils
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/c/colortest/colortest_20110624-9_all.deb
Size: 13540
MD5sum: 5de68a1f28cb9acd7cb692337ff33f22
SHA256: 7f4771b874f21e5c528c4586ed1fbef385f7978810fa0ddc31540d14d4bc67ca