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I downloaded the deb, following the answer in this question:

How can I get swftools installed?

When I run:

wget http://launchpadlibrarian.net/27270379/swftools_0.9.0-0ubuntu1_i386.deb
sudo dpkg --install swftools_0.9.0-0ubuntu1_i386.deb

I get:

The following packages have unmet dependencies: 
 swftools:i386 : Depends: libgif4:i386 (>= 4.1.6) but it is not going to be installed
                 Depends: gsfonts:i386 but it is not installable

I tried calling sudo apt-get -f install which removed the manually installed package, and then installed libgif4 and gsfonts using apt-get, however libgif4 seems to be the wrong version (I'm thinking 4.1.9 as it's the latest), and I can't for the life of me figure out how to get it to install version 4.1.6. And as far as I can tell gsfonts is installed, I'm not sure why I'm getting that error message.

What should I do? I need to batch convert 92 animated gif images to web-optimised swf, and I was planning on doing this using gif2swf.

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Try installing from this PPA:

ppa:guilhem-fr/swftools

and report back of any dependence issues.

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    That's amazing. How did you find that PPA? It appears to have installed without any issues. I installed swftools. I can run pdf2swf, however cannot run gif2swf. It simply states that the command does not exist. Any ideas? I'm running find on the system now.
    – abkai
    May 23, 2012 at 12:42
  • @abkai: did you get anywhere with your problem? I've encountered exactly the same difficulty
    – Nicholas
    Apr 17, 2015 at 2:19

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