Installing imagemagick under gnu linux

Installing ImageMagick under GNU/Linux

Date: 3-Jul-2005.

OS: Linux pc 2.4.21-27.0.4.ELsmp #1 SMP $Date i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

Compiler: gcc V 3.2.3.

I found I could not install ImageMagick V 6.3.3 from source, due to a bug in the make file.

So, while trying that, and V 6.2.2, I made some notes.

• Test to see which version is installed
  • This uses single quotes on the outside and doubles in the inside of the singles
  • perl -MImage::Magick -e 'print "$Image::Magick::VERSION\n"'
• Go to ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/ImageMagick/
• Download ImageMagick-6.2.2-5.tar.bz2

  Do not use V 6.3.3-3. Details below.

• bunzip2 ImageMagick-6.2.2-5.tar.bz2
• tar xvf ImageMagick-6.2.2-5.tar
• cd ImageMagick-6.2.2
• All this on one line...

  	./configure
  		--enable-shared
  		--disable-installed (so I can install in a non-system directory)
  		--with-modules
  		--with-perl-options=PERL=/home/ron
  		--prefix=/home/ron

• make

  At this point, V 6.3.3-3 dies with: No rule to make target 'Magick++/bin/Magick++-config.1.

• make install
• Edit .bash_profile
  • Add

    PERL5LIB=/home/ron/lib:/home/ron/lib/perl5/site_perl

    where the dir before the : is for other local modules

    and the dir after the : is just for Image::Magick

  • Add

    export PERL5LIB

• Source .bash_profile
• Test, as above, with

  perl -MImage::Magick -e 'print "$Image::Magick::VERSION\n"'

  This must display: 6.2.2, i.e the version you installed, and not the version number of any previously installed version

Resources

http://www.imagemagick.org/script/advanced-unix-installation.php

Author

Ron Savage.

Home page: http://savage.net.au/index.html

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