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MarkW

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[NOTABUG] Imagemagick convert in Debian (WAS: What's All This About?)

Popped up when I tried to use Quick Screenshot

Which package do I need?

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marens

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Re: [NOTABUG] Imagemagick convert in Debian (WAS: What's All This About?)

^ ImageMagick.

sudo apt install imagemagick

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MarkW

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Re: [NOTABUG] Imagemagick convert in Debian (WAS: What's All This About?)

sudo apt says I already have it.   Must be something else.

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Re: [NOTABUG] Imagemagick convert in Debian (WAS: What's All This About?)

Maybe some dependencies are missing:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install -f

or reinstall:

sudo apt update
sudo apt --reinstall install imagemagick

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MarkW

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Re: [NOTABUG] Imagemagick convert in Debian (WAS: What's All This About?)

Nope.  That didn't change anything.

marens

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Re: [NOTABUG] Imagemagick convert in Debian (WAS: What's All This About?)

^ Run Quick Screenshot from the terminal and check for errors.

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MarkW

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Re: [NOTABUG] Imagemagick convert in Debian (WAS: What's All This About?)

I have no idea how to do that.

Are you sure you're the right person for this job?

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Re: [NOTABUG] Imagemagick convert in Debian (WAS: What's All This About?)

I have no idea how to do that.

Are you sure you're the right person for this job?

^ Sorry for trying to help you.

Don't worry, it won't happen again.
Never.

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Re: [NOTABUG] Imagemagick convert in Debian (WAS: What's All This About?)

I have no idea how to do that.

Are you sure you're the right person for this job?

Marens is indeed the right person for the job.

When you work out how to run the command from the terminal, you will probably see this error:

WARNING: The convert command is deprecated in IMv7, use "magick" instead of "convert" or "magick convert"

The screenshot application you are using will need to be updated to suit. Not sure if that is a BL supplied script or one of your own.

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Re: [NOTABUG] Imagemagick convert in Debian (WAS: What's All This About?)

(Moved to Bug Reports)

TL:DR there is currently no problem using "convert" on Debian Trixie.

Imagemagick was upgraded to 7 in Debian Trixie, and the behaviour of its commands changed.
On many systems the WARNING message that Döbbie03 posted appears when calling the old command "convert", but on Debian Trixie the message is not shown and convert continues to work as before. A Debian alternative for convert has been set up by the package maintainers to point to the new binary "magick":

john@trixie-tester:$ file /usr/bin/convert
/usr/bin/convert: symbolic link to /etc/alternatives/convert
john@trixie-tester:$ readlink -f  /usr/bin/convert
/usr/bin/magick-im7.q16

Existing scripts can still use convert as before, but this might end in the future. The recommended command is now "magick" but NOTE that the command line order magick [INPUT-OPTIONS] INPUT FILE [OUTPUT-OPTIONS] OUTPUT FILE is now enforced more strictly than before:
https://suay.site/?p=2835
https://imagemagick.org/script/magick.php
Right now 'magick convert...' also works.

So the OP must have got their error popup, and Döbbie03 the warning message, on some other system.

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Re: [NOTABUG] Imagemagick convert in Debian (WAS: What's All This About?)

Just to confirm, one of my old scripts that uses bunch on convert's is working fine on Trixie.

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Re: [NOTABUG] Imagemagick convert in Debian (WAS: What's All This About?)

i'm not on Trixie/Carbon

Döbbie03

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Re: [NOTABUG] Imagemagick convert in Debian (WAS: What's All This About?)

So the OP must have got their error popup, and Döbbie03 the warning message, on some other system.

I know what has caused the issue on my system, I took the time to investigate it

I tried converting a .png to a smaller version last week.

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Re: [NOTABUG] Imagemagick convert in Debian (WAS: What's All This About?)

Yeah convert still working here in my scripts. Using "magick" instead is a long time coming, I remember seeing warnings as far back as 2018 that the command would eventually be changed, so there's been plenty warning.

Small but nifty thing in IM-7, it now has support for the .jxl format, so re-size/rotate scripts will now work on that format.