How To Install pngcheck-extras on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install pngcheck-extras on Rocky Linux 8.
What is pngcheck-extras
Included with pngcheck (since version 2.1.0) are two helper utilities - pngsplit - break a PNG, MNG or JNG image into constituent chunks (numbered for easy reassembly) - png-fix-IDAT-windowsize - fix minor zlib-header breakage caused by libpng 1.2.6
We can use yum or dnf to install pngcheck-extras on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install pngcheck-extras.
Install pngcheck-extras on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install pngcheck-extras using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install pngcheck-extras
Install pngcheck-extras on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install pngcheck-extras using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install pngcheck-extras
How To Uninstall pngcheck-extras on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the pngcheck-extras package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove pngcheck-extras
pngcheck-extras Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/bin/png-fix-IDAT-windowsize
/usr/bin/pngsplit
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/73
/usr/lib/.build-id/73/e5f6388d877b1eff8d287e38a851e87a5d1056
/usr/lib/.build-id/cf
/usr/lib/.build-id/cf/d2acaeaca7dee3c4df47470b315f1567d0ed8a
/usr/share/doc/pngcheck-extras
/usr/share/doc/pngcheck-extras/CHANGELOG
/usr/share/doc/pngcheck-extras/README
/usr/share/licenses/pngcheck-extras
/usr/share/licenses/pngcheck-extras/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/png-fix-IDAT-windowsize.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pngsplit.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install pngcheck-extras on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.