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gif2png mit Homebrew, dnf, pacman installieren

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Installation

Weitere Installationsbefehle

macOS

Homebrewverifiziert · 100%

brew install gif2png

local Homebrew formula metadata

Linux

Fedora dnfverifiziert · 92%

sudo dnf install gif2png

Fedora Rawhide package metadata · gif2png · Quelle: dl.fedoraproject.org

Arch Linux pacmanverifiziert · 92%

sudo pacman -S gif2png

Arch Linux sync databases · gif2png · Quelle: geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com

Überblick

Paketzusammenfassung

Convert GIFs to PNGs

Projektlinks

Homepage

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

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Risikoklassifikator

grün Risiko · niedrig Konfidenz · appliance

Warum

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Signale

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Installationsverhalten

Es wurden keine Homebrew-Bottle-Metadaten erfasst.

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Executables

Installierte Executables

Befehl	Art	Sichtbarkeit	Hinweis
`gif2png`	Executable	indexiertes Executable	Aus dem lokalen Executable-Index erkannt.
`web2png`	Executable	indexiertes Executable	Aus dem lokalen Executable-Index erkannt.

Aktualität

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Seite generiert2026-08-03

Manager-Version3.0.3

Manager aktualisiert

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Installationsmetadaten

Paketmetadaten

Paketschlüssel	brew:gif2png
Version	3.0.3
Paketmanager	Homebrew
Homepage	http://www.catb.org/~esr/gif2png/
Bottle	nicht erfasst
Dienst	keiner deklariert

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dnf95%

gif2png 3.0.4-3.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
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Abgeglichen nach: Gif2png

Fedora Rawhide package metadata · dl.fedoraproject.org · Fedora Rawhide package metadata: gif2png from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst

pacman95%

gif2png 3.0.3-2

A GIF to PNG image format converter