How To Install gif2png on Fedora 34

gif2png is A GIF to PNG converter

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gif2png on Fedora 34.

What is gif2png

The gif2png program converts files from the obsolescent Graphic Interchange Format to Portable Network Graphics. The conversion preserves all graphic information, including transparency, perfectly. The gif2png program can even recover data from corrupted GIFs. There exists a ‘web2png’ program in a separate package which is able to convert entire directory hierarchies.

We can use yum or dnf to install gif2png on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install gif2png.

Install gif2png on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install gif2png using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install gif2png

Install gif2png on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install gif2png using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install gif2png

How To Uninstall gif2png on Fedora 34

To uninstall only the gif2png package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove gif2png

gif2png Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/gif2png
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/dd
/usr/lib/.build-id/dd/57531cdb065e9a62e843d6feb1dcc0628798d5
/usr/share/man/man1/gif2png.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install gif2png on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.