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libimagequant


Information about the package, libimagequant, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The libimagequant package is designed for, Small, portable C lib for HQ conversion of RGBA to 8-bit.


Package Name:

libimagequant

Summary:

Small, portable C lib for HQ conversion of RGBA to 8-bit

Description:

libimagequant converts 24/32-bit RGBA PNG images to 8-bit palette with alpha channel preserved. Such images are compatible with all modern web browsers and a compatibility setting is available to help transparency degrade well in Internet Explorer 6. Quantized files are often 40-70 percent smaller than their 24/32-bit version. libimagequant uses the median cut algorithm.

Architecture:

x86_64

Version:

2.5.2

Release:

5.el6

Size:

39 k

Repository:

epel

From Repository:

Licence:

BSD with advertising



Handy Yum Commands for libimagequant


Control the libimagequant package with the following handy commands outlined below.


Command

Description of Command

yum install libimagequant

This command will install libimagequant on the server.

yum remove libimagequant

This command will un-install libimagequant on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove libimagequant, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y remove libimagequant

This command will un-install libimagequant on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove libimagequant when using the -y flag.

yum update libimagequant

This command will update libimagequant to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove libimagequant, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y update libimagequant

This command will update libimagequant to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove libimagequant when using the -y flag.

yum info libimagequant

This command will show you core information about the libimagequant package.

yum deplist libimagequant

This command will show you the dependencies for libimagequant. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.

yum check-update libimagequant

This command will check if there is an update waiting on libimagequant. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.