spyder 3 color calibration with 17.10

With Ubuntu 17.10 (artful aardvark):

when trying to calibrate my monitor with my datacolor spyder 3 calibration tool using the settings - devices - color manager, after I am told to hang the instrument on the screen and start calibrating I get something like

an internal error occurred that could not be recovered - remove calibration device

does anbybody know what to do here? Thanks. minyves

EDIT:

Found it! It worked after

apt-get install colord-sensor-argyll

2 Answers

It worked in Ubuntu 17.10 after running this command:

sudo apt install colord-sensor-argyll

Try using DisplayCAL/dispcalGUI. It should install necessary components and the interface is pretty much straight forward. Side note: it takes a while to calibrate, so best make a cup of tea/coffee and turn off monitor saving for the calibration process.

To install dispcalGUI in all currently supported versions of Ubuntu open the terminal and type:

sudo apt-get install dispcalgui colord # colord is an optional package