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human7314

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Registered: 2025-02-11

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jpegexiforient removed?

I was trying to install the jpegexiforient package which allows me to save image rotations in feh when used with --edit. But it seems the package has been removed.
Was this done intentionally or will it be back soon? If not what alternative should I opt for?

Last edited by human7314 (2025-10-05 13:29:43)

twelveeighty

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Registered: 2011-09-04

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Re: jpegexiforient removed?

It looks like it was an orphan package removed 5 years ago.

Not sure how long (if any) it was in the AUR before it was dropped there as well. Sometimes these utilities get absorbed in other projects. For example, Debian packages it in `libjpeg-progs`, maybe it got moved to a different package on Arch. Worse case, maybe you can create a PKGBUILD from the Debian package.

mpan

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Re: jpegexiforient removed?

I don’t know, if it’s going to be useful with feh, but there are some relevant utilities in the repos.

• Modifying Exif Orientation tag
  I assume this is how jpegexiforient worked.

  • exiv2

  • exiftool from package perl-image-exiftool,

• Lossless transformation of DCT blocks

  • jpegtran from package libjpeg-turbo, with `-rotate`option. You almost certainly want `-copy all` to preserve all optional chunks: otherwise they’re being discarded. The thumbnail is not regenerated, Exif Orientation tag remains untouched.

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