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title: Install Tacent View on Arch Linux using the Snap Store | Snapcraft
description: Get the latest version of Tacent View for on Arch Linux - Image viewer/editor
  for tga, png, apng, exr, dds, pvr, ktx, ktx2, astc, pkm, qoi, gif, hdr, jpg, tif,
  ico, webp, and bmp files.
url: https://snapcraft.io/install/tacentview/arch
---

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# Install Tacent View on **Arch Linux**

# Tacent View (tacentview)

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[Install](https://snapcraft.io/install/tacentview/arch#install)

#### Image viewer/editor for tga, png, apng, exr, dds, pvr, ktx, ktx2, astc, pkm, qoi, gif, hdr, jpg, tif, ico, webp, and bmp files.

Tacent View is a picture and image viewer targeted at game developers. The alpha channel is displayed correctly and individual pixel colours can be inspected/edited. Features exposure adjustments for hdr and exr files, photo slideshow mode (capable of interactive speeds), batch conversion/resize with various filters, fast thumbnail view, channel filtering, basic editing (flip, scale, crop, rotate, resize, pixel-edit, brightness, contrast), contact sheet generation for flipbook animations, levels adjustments, high-quality quantizers for gif file generation, and fast scrubbing of all animated images (gifs, apngs, tiffs, webp).

Tacent View can save tga, bmp, jpg, png, qoi, and animated gif, tiff, apng, and webp files. Per-frame durations may be edited for the animated formats.

The tool may also be used from the command-line for batch processing images. Simply call with --help to see full instructions.

Release notes at: <https://github.com/bluescan/tacentview/releases>

### Package name

* tacentview

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### License

* ISC

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### Last updated

* 7 December 2025 - latest/stable
* 7 December 2025 - latest/edge

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### Websites

* [bluescan.github.io](https://bluescan.github.io/tacentview/ "https://bluescan.github.io/tacentview/")

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## Enable snaps on Arch Linux and install Tacent View

Snaps are applications packaged with all their dependencies to run on all popular Linux distributions from a single build. They update automatically and roll back gracefully.

Snaps are discoverable and installable from the [Snap Store](https://snapcraft.io/store), an app store with an audience of millions.

### Enable snapd

On Arch Linux, snap can be installed from the [Arch User Repository (AUR).](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/snapd/)
The [manual build process](https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_User_Repository#Installing_packages) is the Arch-supported
install method for AUR packages, and you’ll need the [prerequisites](https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_User_Repository#Prerequisites)
installed before you can install any AUR package. You can then install snap with the following:

```
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/snapd.git
cd snapd
makepkg -si
```

Once installed, the *systemd* unit that manages the main snap communication socket needs to be enabled:

```
sudo systemctl enable --now snapd.socket
```

If [AppArmor](https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/AppArmor) is enabled in your system, enable the service which loads AppArmor profiles for snaps:

```
sudo systemctl enable --now snapd.apparmor.service
```

To enable *classic* snap support, enter the following to create a symbolic link between `/var/lib/snapd/snap` and `/snap`:

```
sudo ln -s /var/lib/snapd/snap /snap
```

Either log out and back in again, or restart your system, to ensure snap’s paths are updated correctly.

### Install Tacent View

To install Tacent View, simply use the following command:

```
sudo snap install tacentview
```

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