libgdk-pixbuf2.0-bin package does not contain gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders

[Jan Claeys]

Because EOG can't show webp images by default I tried to build https://github.com/aruiz/webp-pixbuf-loader but it complains that it can't find the 'gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders' tool it needs.

I assume it should be in the 'libgdk-pixbuf2.0-bin' package, as that does contain a manpage for it, but not the tool itself?

[Jan Claeys (janc)]

I suppose it might actually be /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders in the libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 package instead.

Meaning the actual problem is that it is in a different location than expected by that build file...

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report, indeed it's the file you found, and the fact that the webp loader isn't able to specify a path is a but for that upstream component and not in Ubuntu

[Jan Claeys (janc)]

One can specify an alternative path, but it would be nice if the fact that the tool was relocated to a non-default (or at least not-in-$PATH) location was documented somewhere…

(Neither its manpage nor the other gdk-pixbuf documentation seems to mention that.)