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gifsicle


Information about the package, gifsicle, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The gifsicle package is designed for, Powerful program for manipulating GIF images and animations.


Package Name:

gifsicle

Summary:

Powerful program for manipulating GIF images and animations

Description:

Gifsicle is a command-line tool for creating, editing, and getting information about GIF images and animations. Some more gifsicle features: * Batch mode for changing GIFs in place. * Prints detailed information about GIFs, including comments. * Control over interlacing, comments, looping, transparency... * Creates well-behaved GIFs: removes redundant colors, only uses local color tables if it absolutely has to (local color tables waste space and can cause viewing artifacts), etc. * It can shrink colormaps and change images to use the Web-safe palette (or any colormap you choose). * It can optimize your animations! This stores only the changed portion of each frame, and can radically shrink your GIFs. You can also use transparency to make them even smaller. Gifsicle?s optimizer is pretty powerful, and usually reduces animations to within a couple bytes of the best commercial optimizers. * Unoptimizing animations, which makes them easier to edit. * A dumb-ass name. One other program is included with gifsicle and gifdiff compares two GIFs for identical visual appearance.

Architecture:

x86_64

Version:

1.90

Release:

1.el6

Size:

135 k

Repository:

epel

From Repository:

Licence:

GPLv2+



Handy Yum Commands for gifsicle


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


Command

Description of Command

yum install gifsicle

This command will install gifsicle on the server.

yum remove gifsicle

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

yum -y remove gifsicle

This command will un-install gifsicle 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 gifsicle when using the -y flag.

yum update gifsicle

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

yum -y update gifsicle

This command will update gifsicle 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 gifsicle when using the -y flag.

yum info gifsicle

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

yum deplist gifsicle

This command will show you the dependencies for gifsicle. 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 gifsicle

This command will check if there is an update waiting on gifsicle. 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.