How to Install and Uninstall pngquant Package on Kali Linux

Last updated: May 13,2024

1. Install "pngquant" package

Please follow the step by step instructions below to install pngquant on Kali Linux


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                pngquant
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "pngquant" package

Learn how to uninstall pngquant on Kali Linux:


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                pngquant
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the pngquant package on Kali Linux

Package: pngquant
Version: 2.18.0-1
Installed-Size: 61
Maintainer: Debian PhotoTools Maintainers
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.34), libimagequant0 (>= 2.11.10), libpng16-16 (>= 1.6.2)
Size: 21492
SHA256: b51f652e7f737638c8f53bad953149db4cbad8682a08047dbb6aea7c4fe90a99
SHA1: f4dcbc40f0818724528d3a9f4925f7365c2698f9
MD5sum: 4bbfdbe2751bebc7865a3216e10caf26
Description: PNG (Portable Network Graphics) image optimising utility
pngquant is a command-line conversion utility to quantize and dither truecolor
PNG images, especially those with a full alpha channel, down to 8-bit (or
smaller) RGBA-palette PNGs. Such images are usually two to four times smaller
than the full 32-bit versions, and partial transparency is preserved quite
nicely. This makes pngquant especially useful both for Web sites and for
PlayStation 2 development, where one of the texture formats is
RGBA-palette-based (though not PNG-compressed).
This is the same technique used for many of the images on the Miscellaneous
Transparent PNGs page (http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/pngs-img.html), and
the results are often indistinguishable from the original, truecolor PNG
images.
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Optimizers (like pngcrush and optipng) optimize the compression, usually
losslessly, while pngquant quantizes colors down to 256 (or fewer) distinct
RGBA combinations, which is lossy.
Description-md5:
Homepage: https://pngquant.org/
Tag: implemented-in::c, interface::commandline, role::program,
scope::utility, use::compressing, use::converting,
works-with-format::png, works-with::image, works-with::image:raster
Section: graphics
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/p/pngquant/pngquant_2.18.0-1_amd64.deb