---
name: "afterimage-libs"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "libafterimage-dev"
version: "2.2.12-18"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/afterimage-libs"
---

# afterimage-libs(1)

script to get information about the installed version of libAfterImage

## NAME

afterimage-libs - script to get information about the installed version of libAfterImage

## SYNOPSIS

**afterimage-libs** \[--external-only\] \[--have-afterbase\] \[--preferred-image-format\]

## DESCRIPTION

*afterimage-libs* is a tool that is used to configure to determine the linker flags that should be used to link programs that use *libAfterImage* library.

When called without any options,  prints the linker flags that are necessary to link a program using *libAfterImage*.

## OPTIONS

*afterimage-libs* accepts the following options:

- **--external-only**

  Print the linker flags containing only external (i.e. not coming from afterstep package) libraries needed to link a program  using *libAfterImage*.

- **--have-afterbase**

  Print \`*yes*' if *libAfterBase* is available.

- **--preferred-image-format**

  Print the image format set as preferred when *libAfterImage* was compiled.

## COPYRIGHT

*libAfterBase*

```
        Copyright © 1999-2004 Sasha Vasko     <sasha at aftercode.net>
        Copyright © 2000,2001 Andrew Ferguson <andrew@owsla.cjb.net>
        Copyright © 1999 Ethan Fischer        <allanon@crystaltokyo.com>
        Copyright © 1998 Pierre Clerissi      <clerissi@pratique.fr>
```

*libAfterImage*

```
        Copyright © 1999-2004 Sasha Vasko <sasha at aftercode.net>
        Copyright © 2004 Valeriy Onuchin <Valeri dot Onoutchine at cern dot ch>
        Copyright © 2001 Eric Kowalski <eric@beancrock.net>
        Copyright © 1999,2001 Ethan Fisher <allanon@crystaltokyo.com>
        Copyright © 1999-2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
        Copyright © 2004 Maxim Nikulin <nikulin at gorodok.net>
```

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

## AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Robert Luberda \<robert@debian.org\>, strongly based on the cppunit-libs man page, which itself is an almost word-for-word copy of the gtk-libs manpage, written by  Owen Taylor.  The cppunit-libs man page was modified by E. Sommerlade \<eric@sommerla.de\>.