Re: command-line utility to write/edit iptc info?

[Bruno Buys <bruno.grupos@gmail.com>]

Ron Johnson wrote:

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> Bruno Buys wrote:
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> > hi all!
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> > does anyone know of a good utility to write and edit iptc metadata from
> > images? I´d like to install one that I can scriptalize easily.
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> $ apt-cache search iptc
> exiv2 - EXIF/IPTC metadata manipulation tool
> iptables-dev - development files for iptable's libipq and libiptc
> libexiv2 - EXIF/IPTC metadata manipulation library
> libexiv2-dev - EXIF/IPTC metadata manipulation library - development
> files
> libexiv2-doc - EXIF/IPTC metadata manipulation library - HTML
> documentation
> libimage-exiftool-perl - Perl module to read and write meta
> information in image files
> python-imaging - Python Imaging Library
> python-mmpython - Media Metadata for Python
>
> $ apt-cache show exiv2
> Package: exiv2
> Priority: optional
> Section: graphics
> Installed-Size: 172
> Maintainer: KELEMEN Peter <fuji@debian.org>
> Architecture: i386
> Version: 0.10-1
> Depends: libexiv2 (= 0.10-1), libc6 (>= 2.3.6-6), libexiv2, libgcc1
> (>= 1:4.1.0), libstdc++6 (>= 4.1.0)
> Filename: pool/main/e/exiv2/exiv2_0.10-1_i386.deb
> Size: 75008
> MD5sum: d5b2a3799224e6fba4ccb131b4ab0d58
> SHA1: 7060f50f98301992b2ee543f1287b7f4ec45bf62
> SHA256: 007548e5ba64b9b1f5e81f26a090d032aa106413628ffddc1be58e230be08abd
> Description: EXIF/IPTC metadata manipulation tool
> Exiv2 can:
>  * print the EXIF metadata of JPEG images as summary info,
> interpreted values,
>    or the plain data for each tag (here is a sample)
>  * print the IPTC metadata of JPEG images
>  * print the JPEG comment of JPEG images
>  * set, add and delete EXIF and IPTC metadata of JPEG images
>  * adjust the EXIF timestamp (that's how it all started...)
>  * rename EXIF image files according to the EXIF timestamp
>  * extract EXIF metadata, IPTC metadata and JPEG comments from
> image files and
>    insert it again
>  * extract the thumbnail image embedded in the EXIF metadata
>  * delete the thumbnail or the complete EXIF metadata from an image
>
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> - --
> Ron Johnson, Jr.
> Jefferson LA  USA
>
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> are mud people.
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ron,
My sources.list won't list exiv2. What repo does your come from? 
apt-get.org also doesn't list anything.
thanks!