How to install libvips with mozjpeg and libimagequant on Debian/Ubuntu?

1.9k Views Asked by NAG At 30 March 2019 at 15:12

I want to build a server for treat all images of a website.

I have a script in Nodejs using Sharp and I would like to setup the server with the best libs to use maximum power of libvips.

I would like to get help to install it.

I can install libvips-dev using:

apt-get install libvips-dev

But it don't have mozjpeg and libimagequant.

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GAD3R On 30 March 2019 at 15:39

To install libimagequant through apt you should have debian (Buster, Bullseye or Sid).

On Ubuntu the package is available only for Ubuntu disco 19.04 and eoan 19.10.

sudo apt install libimagequant-dev

The package mozjpeg is available on this git repository, the build instruction and requirement : building.md