What is the antix (debian) equivalent of the ‘convert’ SOLVED

[Member mikey777]

Before I became an antix user, I used Ubuntu-based distros. When I wanted to change the file extension of an image file, in those distros, I’d use the ‘convert’ command, e.g. using terminal to change a *.png file to a *.jpg file as follows:

$ convert portrait.png portrait.jpg

However, antix (debian) doesn’t appear to recognise the ‘convert’ command.
Instead, what should I use?

Thanks for any advice on this.

• This topic was modified 1 year, 7 months ago by mikey777.
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▪ 32-bit antix19.4-core+LXDE installed on :
- (2011) Samsung NP-N145 Plus (JP04UK) – single-core CPU Intel Atom N455@1.66GHz, 2GB RAM, integrated graphics.
▪ 64-bit antix21-base+LXDE installed on:
- (2008) Asus X71Q (7SC002) – dual CPU Intel T3200@2.0GHz, 4GB RAM. Graphics: Intel Mobile 4 Series, integrated graphics
- (2007) Packard Bell Easynote MX37 (ALP-Ajax C3) – dual CPU Intel T2310@1.46GHz, 2GB RAM. Graphics: Silicon Integrated Systems.

[Member Xecure]

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You are talking about imagemagick, right? You can also install it in antix and use the “convert command” here.
sudo apt install imagemagick
In fact, the command “convert” is just a symlink to a imagemagick command, if I am not mistaken, but it still is created when you install imagemagick.

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[Member ile]

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hello mikey777 and Xecure
not on command-line
open in mirage or mtpaint and File, Save-as the desired format.

an antiX alternate
On command line use “ffmpeg -i” (where you used “convert”)
<ffmpeg -i /path/portrait.png /path/portrait.jpg>

(?) is one [of probably many converters) in terminal. (?)

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Good suggestions from xecure and ile,
Just to make this somewhat more complete, using the GIMP export function gives a great deal of control over final
image, file size/quality are easily set.

[Member LikkMii]

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Gimp needs to have gimp-plugin-registry to “export for web”
Quick and easy

[Member mikey777]

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Xecure wrote:

You are talking about imagemagick, right? You can also install it in antix and use the “convert command” here.
sudo apt install imagemagick
In fact, the command “convert” is just a symlink to a imagemagick command, if I am not mistaken, but it still is created when you install imagemagick.

Many thanks Xecure – this works perfectly – just what was needed !
@ile – Xecure’s solution does work on command-line.

@LikkMii
Thanks for your reply. I don’t really need Gimp as the only image file manipulations I carry out, on my single-core netbook, are the changes to file extensions – the hardware isn’t powerful enough for anything more sophisticated, but that’s fine.

@Moddit
Please could you mark this post as ‘[Solved]’ – again no edit button is showing, for the first post, to allow me to add this to the thread’s title. Many thanks in advance.

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• This reply was modified 1 year, 7 months ago by mikey777.
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▪ 32-bit antix19.4-core+LXDE installed on :
- (2011) Samsung NP-N145 Plus (JP04UK) – single-core CPU Intel Atom N455@1.66GHz, 2GB RAM, integrated graphics.
▪ 64-bit antix21-base+LXDE installed on:
- (2008) Asus X71Q (7SC002) – dual CPU Intel T3200@2.0GHz, 4GB RAM. Graphics: Intel Mobile 4 Series, integrated graphics
- (2007) Packard Bell Easynote MX37 (ALP-Ajax C3) – dual CPU Intel T2310@1.46GHz, 2GB RAM. Graphics: Silicon Integrated Systems.

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hello mikey777 and everyone
Good report of your image convert comfort with an installation of imagemagick.
Yes, my offer of answer is in case you chose applications from criteria antiX19_full supported packages. Otherwise I had no response choice other than questions for you. Thanks for your patience when i may have missed on all three alternatives mentioned while two were not command-line. You got a solution, so now is just a chat:
looking ahead to bullseye, when you install antiX 21,
there is a package, to obtain for trial, that has both the gui File Save-as and
it has command line image conversion
lazpaint [INPUT FILE] [OUTPUT FILE]
<lazPaint> package

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