How To Install pngcrush on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install pngcrush
on Debian 11.
What is pngcrush
pngcrush is:
Pngcrush is an optimizer for PNG (Portable Network Graphics) files. Its main purpose is to reduce the size of the PNG IDAT data stream by trying various compression levels and PNG filter methods. It also can be used to remove unwanted ancillary chunks, or to add certain chunks including gAMA, tRNS, and textual chunks.
There are three methods to install pngcrush
on Debian 11. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install pngcrush Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install pngcrush
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install pngcrush
Install pngcrush Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install pngcrush
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install pngcrush
Install pngcrush Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install pngcrush
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install pngcrush
How To Uninstall pngcrush on Debian 11
To uninstall only the pngcrush
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove pngcrush
Uninstall pngcrush And Its Dependencies
To uninstall pngcrush
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove pngcrush
Remove pngcrush Configurations and Data
To remove pngcrush
configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge pngcrush
Remove pngcrush configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove pngcrush
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge pngcrush
Dependencies
pngcrush have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install pngcrush
package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.