[SOLVED] What replaced libungif?

RandomTroll · 10-14-2016, 01:14 PM

I needed text2gif today. I notice that its package, libungif, isn't in Slackware anymore. Fortunately I still have a copy, and it works. Is there a similar program in another package?

phenixia2003 · 10-14-2016, 01:26 PM

Hello,

giflib maybe ?

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SeB

ponce · 10-14-2016, 01:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by RandomTroll

I needed text2gif today. I notice that its package, libungif, isn't in Slackware anymore. Fortunately I still have a copy, and it works. Is there a similar program in another package?

the latest release of libungif is 4.1.4, of 2005:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/gif...ibungif-4.1.4/

it has been replaced by giflib starting with slackware 13.1.

Quote:

Originally Posted by 13.1's changelog

l/libungif-4.1.4-x86_64-4.txz: Removed.
Replaced by giflib.

unfortunately this later doesn't seem to have the text2gif utility, but you can use imagemagick in alternative.

phenixia2003 · 10-14-2016, 01:43 PM

Hello,

According to /usr/doc/giflib-5.1.1/NEWS, text2gif (and other tools) have been renamed :

Quote:

Utilities
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* Several utilities have been renamed to (a) fix last-century's habit
of arbitarily smashing vowels out of names to make them just one or two
characters shorter, (b) ensure that every utility in this set has 'gif'
as a name prefix. Here's the list:

giffiltr -> giffilter
gifspnge -> gifsponge
icon2gif -> gifbuild
text2gif -> gifecho
raw2gif -> gif2raw

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SeB

ponce · 10-14-2016, 02:05 PM

thanks SeB, I missed that!

RandomTroll · 10-14-2016, 03:56 PM

Thanks! 'gifecho' isn't exactly an intuitive name, but it works. The gif produced by text2gif is 280K; that produced by gifecho is 9K; plus it has a man page.