Comments on: Howto install RMagick 2 on CentOS/RHEL 5

By: Vitalie Cherpec

Vitalie Cherpec — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 20:32:33 +0000

Check that you have installed devel packages on your machine:

rpm -qa | grep -i ‘^ImageMagick’ | grep devel

ImageMagick-devel
ImageMagick-c++-devel

By: Dimitris

Dimitris — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 01:23:12 +0000

Although I followed successfully all the steps of your tutorial, gem install rmagick still returns error about lMagick and lMagickCore. I’m on a CentOS 5 machine and I’ve spend many many hours with this error.

Please any ideas?

/usr/local/bin/ruby extconf.rb
checking for Ruby version >= 1.8.5… yes
checking for gcc… yes
checking for Magick-config… yes
checking for ImageMagick version >= 6.3.5… yes
checking for HDRI disabled version of ImageMagick… yes
checking for stdint.h… yes
checking for sys/types.h… yes
checking for wand/MagickWand.h… yes
checking for InitializeMagick() in -lMagickCore… no
checking for InitializeMagick() in -lMagick… no
Can’t install RMagick 2.12.2. Can’t find the ImageMagick library or one of the dependent libraries. Check the mkmf.log file for more detailed information.

By: Wahid

Wahid — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 13:35:48 +0000

Incredible! It worked on Centos 5.4.

Just a note :
I stumbled upon a conflict for graphviz-devel between EPEL and RPMFORGE versions (the RPMFORGE one is what I needed) . I had to remove it from the line:

yum –enablerepo=epel –enablerepo=rpmforge –enablerepo=centosplus install djvulibre-devel libwmf-devel jasper-devel libtool-ltdl-devel librsvg2-devel openexr-devel gcc gcc-c++ ghostscript freetype-devel libjpeg-devel libpng-devel giflib-devel libwmf-devel libexif-devel libtiff-devel

Then adding it alone disabling epel repository:

yum –disablerepo=epel install graphviz-devel

Thanks a lot!

By: Avin

Avin — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 07:19:34 +0000

Thank you very much, I found this is best Artical for ImageMagick on RHEL5/CentOS5.

Thanks Again

By: Vitalie Cherpec

Vitalie Cherpec — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:56:51 +0000

Sure, you can download them here:

http://red.penguin.ro/RPMS/

By: eljay

eljay — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 13:13:07 +0000

By any chance, is it possible to download the binary rpm you have generated ?

By: Upgrading ImageMagick on RHEL5 « Sho Fukamachi Online

Upgrading ImageMagick on RHEL5 « Sho Fukamachi Online — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 06:21:08 +0000

[...] of ImageMagick, a custom build from source, lacked proper PNG support. A bit of searching uncovered this excellent guide to installing it from a source RPM – but I had a few modifications to those instructions so [...]

By: Sho

Sho — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 04:43:28 +0000

Thank you very much, that was a great help and saved me a lot of time.

By: Josh

Josh — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:04:56 +0000

Thanks so much for posting this – you’re a lifesaver, I wouldn’t have been able to get past this showstopper without this post!