How To Install ruby-png-quantizator on Debian 12

Learn how to install ruby-png-quantizator on Debian 12 with this tutorial. ruby-png-quantizator is Small wrapper around pngquant

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby-png-quantizator on Debian 12.

What is ruby-png-quantizator

ruby-png-quantizator is:

This library gives a nice API to interact with the pngquant binary and meaningful exceptions in the ruby world if pngquant throws an error.

pngquant is a PNG (Portable Network Graphics) image optimising utility.

There are three methods to install ruby-png-quantizator on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install ruby-png-quantizator Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install ruby-png-quantizator using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install ruby-png-quantizator

Install ruby-png-quantizator Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install ruby-png-quantizator using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install ruby-png-quantizator

Install ruby-png-quantizator 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 ruby-png-quantizator using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install ruby-png-quantizator

How To Uninstall ruby-png-quantizator on Debian 12

To uninstall only the ruby-png-quantizator package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove ruby-png-quantizator

Uninstall ruby-png-quantizator And Its Dependencies

To uninstall ruby-png-quantizator and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove ruby-png-quantizator

Remove ruby-png-quantizator Configurations and Data

To remove ruby-png-quantizator configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge ruby-png-quantizator

Remove ruby-png-quantizator configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove ruby-png-quantizator configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ruby-png-quantizator

Dependencies

ruby-png-quantizator have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby-png-quantizator package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.