How to install cwebp on CentOS 7

cwebp is a command line program used to convert images into webp format.

To install cwebp on CentOS 7, run

sudo yum -y install libwebp-tools

WebP is an image format that does lossy compression of digital photographic images. WebP consists of a codec based on VP8, and a container based on RIFF. Webmasters, web developers and browser developers can use WebP to compress, archive and distribute digital images more efficiently.

To see files in this package, run the command “rpm -q –filesbypkg libwebp-tools”

[root@ns540127 ~]# rpm -q --filesbypkg libwebp-tools
libwebp-tools             /usr/bin/cwebp
libwebp-tools             /usr/bin/dwebp
libwebp-tools             /usr/bin/gif2webp
libwebp-tools             /usr/bin/webpmux
libwebp-tools             /usr/share/man/man1/cwebp.1.gz
libwebp-tools             /usr/share/man/man1/dwebp.1.gz
libwebp-tools             /usr/share/man/man1/gif2webp.1.gz
libwebp-tools             /usr/share/man/man1/webpmux.1.gz
[root@ns540127 ~]#