NodeBB imagemagick requirement

[dylenbrivera]

I noticed imagemagick as a requirement for NodeBB. Can someone elaborate on its use in NodeBB?

[a_5mith]

Think one of the uses is to convert user avatars to .png. (Setting in the ACP) not sure if it's also used to resize avatars.

[dylenbrivera]

Gotcha. Thanks @a_5mith

[Johannsa]

Is not there any alternative to imagemagick that doesn't require us to install 76 MB of dependencies?

# apt-get install imagemagick
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  dbus fontconfig fonts-droid ghostscript gsfonts hicolor-icon-theme
  imagemagick-common libavahi-client3 libavahi-common-data libavahi-common3
  libcairo2 libcups2 libcupsimage2 libdatrie1 libdbus-1-3 libdjvulibre-text
  libdjvulibre21 libexiv2-12 libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 libgdk-pixbuf2.0-common libgs9
  libgs9-common libice6 libijs-0.35 libilmbase6 libjasper1 libjbig2dec0
  liblcms1 liblcms2-2 liblensfun-data liblensfun0 liblqr-1-0 libmagickcore5
  libmagickcore5-extra libmagickwand5 libnetpbm10 libopenexr6 libpango1.0-0
  libpaper-utils libpaper1 libpixman-1-0 librsvg2-2 librsvg2-common libsm6
  libsystemd-login0 libthai-data libthai0 libtiff4 libwmf0.2-7 libxcb-render0
  libxcb-shm0 libxft2 libxrender1 libxt6 netpbm poppler-data ufraw-batch
  x11-common
Suggested packages:
  dbus-x11 ghostscript-cups ghostscript-x hpijs imagemagick-doc autotrace
  cups-bsd lpr lprng enscript ffmpeg gimp gnuplot grads hp2xx html2ps
  libwmf-bin mplayer povray radiance sane-utils texlive-base-bin transfig
  xdg-utils cups-common exiv2 libjasper-runtime liblcms-utils liblcms2-utils
  ttf-baekmuk ttf-arphic-gbsn00lp ttf-arphic-bsmi00lp ttf-arphic-gkai00mp
  ttf-arphic-bkai00mp librsvg2-bin poppler-utils fonts-japanese-mincho
  fonts-ipafont-mincho fonts-japanese-gothic fonts-ipafont-gothic
  fonts-arphic-ukai fonts-arphic-uming fonts-unfonts-core ufraw
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  dbus fontconfig fonts-droid ghostscript gsfonts hicolor-icon-theme
  imagemagick imagemagick-common libavahi-client3 libavahi-common-data
  libavahi-common3 libcairo2 libcups2 libcupsimage2 libdatrie1 libdbus-1-3
  libdjvulibre-text libdjvulibre21 libexiv2-12 libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0
  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-common libgs9 libgs9-common libice6 libijs-0.35 libilmbase6
  libjasper1 libjbig2dec0 liblcms1 liblcms2-2 liblensfun-data liblensfun0
  liblqr-1-0 libmagickcore5 libmagickcore5-extra libmagickwand5 libnetpbm10
  libopenexr6 libpango1.0-0 libpaper-utils libpaper1 libpixman-1-0 librsvg2-2
  librsvg2-common libsm6 libsystemd-login0 libthai-data libthai0 libtiff4
  libwmf0.2-7 libxcb-render0 libxcb-shm0 libxft2 libxrender1 libxt6 netpbm
  poppler-data ufraw-batch x11-common
0 upgraded, 59 newly installed, 0 to remove and 34 not upgraded.
Need to get 26.3 MB of archives.
After this operation, 76.0 MB of additional disk space will be used.
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[Netto Hikari]

I'm not using Debian based distributions any more, but could you eventually try

sudo apt-get install imagemagick --no-recommends

to install imagemagick without "recommended" packages? You could also add those two lines to /etc/apt/apt.conf (create if nonexistant) to never install recommended packages:

APT::Install-Suggests "0";
APT::Install-Recommends "0";

[Johannsa]

Cool! I will try going that route... To be honest, I didn't mind in the "required, recommended and suggested" thing... My fault! :$

Thank you very much and have a nice day!

[julian]

Good tip @Netto-Hikari! Thanks for that, learned something new tonight

Edit: How did you respond so fast Pushbullet? haha

[Netto Hikari]

You're welcome, guys!

Edit: Aways lurking in the dark, @julian ...