macOS
Homebrewverifiziert · 100%
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gif2png mit Homebrew, dnf, pacman installieren
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Installation
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Linux
Fedora dnfverifiziert · 92%
sudo dnf install gif2pngFedora Rawhide package metadata · gif2png · Quelle: dl.fedoraproject.org
Arch Linux pacmanverifiziert · 92%
sudo pacman -S gif2pngArch Linux sync databases · gif2png · Quelle: geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com
Überblick
Paketzusammenfassung
Convert GIFs to PNGs
Projektlinks
Befehle und Aliase
- gif2png
- web2png
Verlauf
Projektgeschichte und Nutzung
gif2png is a classic image-conversion utility that converts GIF files to PNG and ships with `web2png`, a front end for converting web hierarchies and rewriting image references. It is strongly associated with the late-1990s move from GIF toward PNG on the open web.
Projektgeschichte
The project predates its GitLab hosting and has a long changelog preserved by Eric S. Raymond's project page. The NEWS file shows releases in 1999 leading up to version 2.0.0, which was marked ready for Burn All GIFs Day, a campaign-era milestone in PNG advocacy.
Development continued through portability, packaging, and correctness work: DocBook documentation in 2002, RPM and Freshmeat packaging updates in 2003, libpng and security fixes in the 2000s and 2010s, a simpler makefile after Autotools removal in 2015, a Go port in 2019, and Go module packaging in 2023.
Adoptionsgeschichte
gif2png's adoption was rooted in a specific historical problem: GIF was ubiquitous but politically and technically contentious, while PNG offered a patent-free replacement for many web graphics. The utility gave web maintainers a batchable path to convert image assets and update references.
The package's continued presence in Homebrew, Fedora, Arch, and other packaging indexes reflects its role as a small, stable conversion tool rather than a large image suite. Users who need this exact conversion can install a purpose-built command instead of pulling in a broad graphics application.
Wie es verwendet wird
Practitioners use `gif2png` for file-level GIF to PNG conversion and `web2png` when converting a directory tree of web pages and image references. The README describes POSIX and Go build requirements, a regression test suite, and the `make check` workflow.
Typical use is archival cleanup, static-site maintenance, packaging tests around image conversion, or migration of old GIF-heavy web assets to PNG.
Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren
gif2png is package-nerd significant because it is old, focused, and still easy to package. Its changelog records decades of small portability and correctness fixes, including security hardening and a language-port transition from C-era tooling to Go while keeping the command-line identity intact.
Zeitleiste
- 1999: Version 2.0.0 was prepared for Burn All GIFs Day.
- 2002: Documentation masters moved to DocBook.
- 2003: RPM and Freshmeat packaging updates landed in the 2.5 series.
- 2012: A filename buffer overflow fix for CVE-2009-5018 was released.
- 2015: Autotools was removed in favor of a simple makefile.
- 2019: The code was ported to Go.
- 2023: The build was converted to a Go module.
- 2026: Version 3.0.4 updated web2png for Python 3.
Related projects
- gif2png is related to PNG, GIF, libpng, web2png, Burn All GIFs Day, and small Unix-style image conversion utilities.
Quellen
Sicherheitslage
Risikostufe: grün
narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.
Risikoklassifikator
grün Risiko · niedrig Konfidenz · appliance
Warum
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals
Signale
- metadata:no-higher-risk-signals
Installationsverhalten
- In den Formelmetadaten ist kein Homebrew-Post-install-Hook erfasst.
- Homebrew-Bottle-Metadaten sind für 12 Plattformziele verfügbar.
- Build-Metadaten listen 2 Build-Abhängigkeiten.
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Executables
Installierte Executables
| Befehl | Art | Sichtbarkeit | Hinweis |
|---|---|---|---|
gif2png | cli | globales Executable | |
web2png | cli | globales Executable |
Aktualität
Version und Aktualität
Diese Signale trennen das Alter der Seitengenerierung, Aktivität des Paketmanagers und Upstream-Release-Vergleich. Versionsrückstand wird nur gemeldet, wenn eine Evidenz-URL und vergleichbare Versionen vorhanden sind.
Seite generiert2026-07-25
Manager-Version3.0.3
Manager aktualisiert
lokale DatenOK
Upstreamnot checked
neueste erkannte Versionnicht erkannt
http://www.catb.org/~esr/gif2png/
- InfoNo package-manager update timestamp was available.niedrig Konfidenz
- InfoRelease/tag comparison is only available for GitHub repositories.http://www.catb.org/~esr/gif2png/none Konfidenz
Installationsmetadaten
Paketmetadaten
| Paketschlüssel | brew:gif2png |
|---|---|
| Version | 3.0.3 |
| Paketmanager | Homebrew |
| Paketmanager-Seite | https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/gif2png |
| Homepage | http://www.catb.org/~esr/gif2png/ |
| Repository | https://gitlab.com/esr/gif2png |
| Upstream-Dokumentation | http://www.catb.org/~esr/gif2png |
| Lizenz | BSD-2-Clause |
| Quellarchiv | https://gitlab.com/esr/gif2png/-/archive/3.0.3/gif2png-3.0.3.tar.bz2 |
| Build-Abhängigkeiten | go, xmlto |
| Von macOS bereitgestellte Bibliotheken | python |
| Bottle | verfügbar (auf arm64_big_sur, arm64_linux, arm64_monterey, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, arm64_ventura, big_sur, monterey, sonoma, ventura, x86_64_linux) |
| Homebrew post-install | nicht definiert |
| Dienst | keiner deklariert |
Registry-Fakten
Details aus der Quelldatenbank
| Source Database | Homebrew formula API |
|---|---|
| Tap | homebrew/core |
| Full Name | gif2png |
| Version Scheme | 0 |
| Revision | 0 |
| Head Version | HEAD |
| Bottle Stable Root URL | https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core |
| Deprecated | no |
| Disabled | no |
| Keg Only | no |
| URL Keys |
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Source-Datenbank-Treffer
Andere Paketmanager-Einträge
Treffer stammen aus externen Paketmanager-Indizes und bleiben von lokalen Automic-Vault-Paketlinks getrennt.
dnf95%
gif2png 3.0.4-1.fc45
A GIF to PNG converter
http://www.catb.org/~esr/gif2png/
sudo dnf install gif2png- License: BSD-2-Clause AND BSD-3-Clause
- Category: Unspecified
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: gif2png
- 2 Abhängigkeiten
- 2 stellt bereit
- normalized package name match
- Abgeglichen nach: Gif2png
pacman95%
gif2png 3.0.3-2
A GIF to PNG image format converter
http://www.catb.org/~esr/gif2png/
sudo pacman -S gif2png- License: ZLIB
- Architecture: x86_64
- 1 Abhängigkeiten
- normalized package name match
- Abgeglichen nach: Gif2png
Quellspur
Aus Repository-Daten generiert
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Combined YAML source
View the package source record on GitHub.
Verwendete Quellen
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- Nucleus package database
- av.db category and tag curation
- cross-ecosystem install command graph
- curated package history
- external package-manager database matches
- package relationship graph
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- package-page enrichment