---
title: Install Colorpicker on Debian using the Snap Store | Snapcraft
description: Get the latest version of Colorpicker for on Debian - A mininal but complete
  Colorpicker desktop app
url: https://snapcraft.io/install/colorpicker-app/debian
---

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# Install Colorpicker on **Debian**

# Colorpicker (colorpicker-app)

[Antoine Olivier (toinane)](https://snapcraft.io/publisher/toinane "View all snaps from Antoine Olivier (toinane)")

* [Antoine Olivier (toinane)](https://snapcraft.io/publisher/toinane "View all snaps from Antoine Olivier (toinane)")
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[Install](https://snapcraft.io/install/colorpicker-app/debian#install)

#### A mininal but complete Colorpicker desktop app

Colorpicker is a desktop tool with Electron to get and save colors code quickly for OSX, Windows and Linux!

**WAYLAND**: Picker feature don't work on Wayland for the moment, sorry!

Colorpicker's menu come with a lot of cool features :

* Pin : pin Colorpicker to the foreground;
* Picker: open an eyedropper who can pick a color from your desktop;
* Colorsbook: open Colorsbook, a color manager;
* Shading: show three bar of shading — hue bar, natural bar and lightness bar;
* Opacity: toggle Opacity range;
* Clean Vue: unshow menu, ranges and inputs;
* Magic color: show colors from the clipboard;
* Random: show a random color;
* Settings: open the preferences panel.

### Package name

* colorpicker-app

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### License

* GPL-3.0

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### Last updated

* 8 April 2020 - latest/stable
* 8 April 2020 - latest/beta

This snap hasn't been updated in a while. It might be unmaintained and have stability or security issues.

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### Websites

* [colorpicker.fr](https://colorpicker.fr "https://colorpicker.fr")

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### Contact

* [github.com/toinane/colorpicker](https://github.com/toinane/colorpicker "https://github.com/toinane/colorpicker")

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##### Report a Snap Store violation

* [Report this Snap](https://snapcraft.io/install/colorpicker-app/debian#report-snap-modal)

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## Enable snaps on Debian and install Colorpicker

Snaps are applications packaged with all their dependencies to run on all popular Linux distributions from a single build. They update automatically and roll back gracefully.

Snaps are discoverable and installable from the [Snap Store](https://snapcraft.io/store), an app store with an audience of millions.

### Enable snapd

On Debian 9 (Stretch) and newer, snap can be installed directly from the command line:

```
sudo apt update
sudo apt install snapd
```

After this, install the snapd snap in order to get the latest snapd:

```
sudo snap install snapd
```

### Install Colorpicker

To install Colorpicker, simply use the following command:

```
sudo snap install colorpicker-app
```

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