LXer: Pngquant – A Command-line Utility To Compress PNG Images On Linux

LXer · 08-29-2019, 04:50 PM

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Pngquant is a free, open source and cross-platform command-line lossy PNG compressor. It is based on a portable libimagequant library and is written in C99.

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greencedar · 08-30-2019, 05:04 AM

Good information with the necessary commands to compress PNG images on Linux.

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Installation

Pngquant can be installed in many ways.
Install Pngquant from distribution’s repositories

Pngquant is available in the default repositories of most Linux distributions.

On Arch Linux and its variants, Pngquant is available in [Community] repository. Enable Community repository and install it using Pacman like below.