How to install gifsicle for CentOS

How to install gifsicle for CentOS

There are lot of online tools and apps to optimize your images, however the problem comes when you have lot of images to process, then those tools are not so well designed and we have to search for more practical ways to do it. If you have come to this point, then you must considering using Image Optimization tools from the Linux command line.

You can find the rpm to do a local install by using http://pkgs.repoforge.org/gifsicle/

Find the latest package and download it

cd /tmp/; wget http://pkgs.repoforge.org/gifsicle/gifsicle-1.68-1.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm

yum localinstall gifsicle-1.68-1.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm -y

Find the location of do which gifsicle

which gifsicle

Returning the location of gifsicle

/usr/bin/gifsicle