How to install GPick on Ubuntu 17.04

How to install GPick on Ubuntu 17.04

The Gpick is an advanced color picker used to pick colors from anywhere on the screen, mix them to get new colors, generate shades and tints and also export palettes to common file formats or copy them to clipboard. This tutorial will explain on how to install Gpick on Ubuntu 17.04.

Installation procedure

To start the installation procedure, add the repo by executing the following command.

root@linuxhelp1:~# add-apt-repository ppa:dhor/myway
 Every photographer needs some tools...
 More info: https://launchpad.net/~dhor/+archive/ubuntu/myway
Press [ENTER] to continue or ctrl-c to cancel adding it
gpg: keybox ' /tmp/tmpr5ocaaik/pubring.gpg'  created
gpg: /tmp/tmpr5ocaaik/trustdb.gpg: trustdb created
gpg: key E2B7D64D93330B78: public key " Launchpad PPA for Dariusz Duma"  imported
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg:               imported: 1
OK

The repositories are added to the target system. Update the repo by executing the apt-get update command.

root@linuxhelp1:~# apt-get update
Get:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net/dhor/myway/ubuntu zesty InRelease [15.4 kB]
Hit:2 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty-security InRelease
Hit:3 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty InRelease
Hit:4 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty-updates InRelease
Hit:5 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty-backports InRelease
Get:6 http://ppa.launchpad.net/dhor/myway/ubuntu zesty/main i386 Packages [3,276 B]
Get:7 http://ppa.launchpad.net/dhor/myway/ubuntu zesty/main amd64 Packages [3,280 B] 
Get:8 http://ppa.launchpad.net/dhor/myway/ubuntu zesty/main Translation-en [2,168 B]
Fetched 24.1 kB in 1s (16.2 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done 

The target system is updated with the required repositories. Install the gpick package by running the following command.

root@linuxhelp1:~# apt-get install gpick
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree      
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  liblua5.2-0
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  gpick liblua5.2-0
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 96 not upgraded.
Need to get 435 kB of archives.
After this operation, 1,479 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
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Setting up gpick (0.2.5+git20161221-1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.24-9ubuntu2) ...

Once the package is installed, open the Ubuntu dashboard and type the package name. Click on the icon to run the gpick application.

Wasn' t that an easy installation procedure? Gpick also supports automatic color name assignment and saturation variations.