How to Install and Uninstall pngquant Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: May 12,2024

1. Install "pngquant" package

Please follow the steps below to install pngquant on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


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

Please follow the guidelines below to uninstall pngquant on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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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 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: pngquant
Priority: optional
Section: universe/graphics
Installed-Size: 110
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian PhotoTools Maintainers
Architecture: amd64
Version: 2.5.0-1
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), libpng12-0 (>= 1.2.13-4)
Filename: pool/universe/p/pngquant/pngquant_2.5.0-1_amd64.deb
Size: 35446
MD5sum: 55e55b4c85c03b5caea3985f29509e45
SHA1: 4c7d29502f769ee27dc5b96c5247af11f81fcc52
SHA256: 387f930919c656bb8b5f111202fe0574212c5855b1cd69067e93f57fce78c1fc
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
Homepage: http://pngquant.org/
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu