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

Last updated: May 13,2024

1. Install "pngtools" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to install pngtools on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "pngtools" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to uninstall pngtools on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the pngtools package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: pngtools
Priority: optional
Section: universe/graphics
Installed-Size: 67
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Nelson A. de Oliveira
Architecture: amd64
Version: 0.4-1.2
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4), libpng12-0 (>= 1.2.13-4)
Suggests: optipng | pngcrush
Filename: pool/universe/p/pngtools/pngtools_0.4-1.2_amd64.deb
Size: 15700
MD5sum: 79ce4a69d99f2dad708c03bc4850ce51
SHA1: ee1def3182631b8a4a3f5487fb3958b938d9c6d9
SHA256: 73ccdf56e5783545791151fb1f3d1d9a0935267a55d336ffb06381188e6d4b02
Description-en: series of tools for PNG (Portable Network Graphics) images
pngtools is a suite of utilities to work with PNG (Portable Network
Graphics) files, equivalents to libtiff's tiffinfo, and tiffcp commands.
These commands are called pnginfo, pngcp. tiffdump is replaced by pngchunks
and pngchunkdesc as well.
Description-md5: 7946629d3cfba2d00deb521390a5c1c2
Homepage: http://www.stillhq.com/pngtools/
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu