How to Install and Uninstall pngquant Package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Last updated: May 12,2024

1. Install "pngquant" package

Please follow the step by step instructions below to install pngquant on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)


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

Here is a brief guide to show you how to uninstall pngquant on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the pngquant package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Package: pngquant
Architecture: amd64
Version: 2.13.1-1
Priority: optional
Section: universe/graphics
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian PhotoTools Maintainers
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 66
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.29), libimagequant0 (>= 2.11.10), libpng16-16 (>= 1.6.2-1)
Filename: pool/universe/p/pngquant/pngquant_2.13.1-1_amd64.deb
Size: 19712
MD5sum: f1c3354153500cc0e5d51f798ca2ee70
SHA1: 8052301d7bcf7eaf6682cef90877d7e7703a1d9d
SHA256: b406d1bd71e5400b89b7a3cf53e74e949bee1776f30614e72bcdad81f9fd7f33
SHA512: f32cfba3442fc0b4cc2e9f9cb413dc93947bfca7e7f7df35a5ae886077a55cc72a01b8e7eb9bacb94cebf76caaac66786243e76f41b41ef173fe64d5b4eae2cb
Homepage: https://pngquant.org/
Description-en: 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: 1d0769779d5bab0eb300ce90eee9ee09