How to install Imagemagick on Linux RedHat
I could not get
ImagePlugin to work. It appeared that
CPAN:Image::Magick was not picked up. Below are the installation instructions I found.
Environment
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ArthurClemens - 19 May 2007
Answer
Update 18 Feb 2008: installing on CentOS 5 is a breeze. Just do yum install ImageMagick-perl
Forget the instructions below.
2011-01-25
yum install ImageMagick-perl
on CentOS 5
can fail due to uninstalled dependencies. There seems to be an optimal order for installing from CPAN. This will give you some idea as to the type of problem you may experienece:
http://andrewduck.name/2009/01/imagemagick-64x-on-centos-5/. It is important to get the right Shared Library (.so) files for your system, and probably best to use a slightly older version of ImageMagick. On Perl version 5.8.8 the only version I could get to work was ImageMagick-6.2.8.
I found
these instructions that contained the magical installation steps. I list them here to keep them for eternity:
Install
libjpeg-devel
(needed for ImageMagick):
$ yum install libjpeg-devel
Install
libpng-devel
(needed for ImageMagick):
$ yum install libpng-devel
Install ImageMagick from source:
$ wget ftp://ftp.imagemagick.org/pub/ImageMagick/ImageMagick.tar.gz
$ gunzip -c ImageMagick.tar.gz | tar xvf -
$ cd ImageMagick-6.?.?
$ ./configure -with-perl=/usr/bin/perl
$ make; make install
Ensure that the ImageMagick libraries will be picked up by the system.
Edit
/etc/ld.so.conf
and add the following line to the end of the file:
/usr/local/lib/
Then run the following command to update the library database:
$ /sbin/ldconfig
Test that PerlMagick works:
$ perl -MImage::Magick -e 1
If the output from this command is blank then all is well. If instead you get an error saying the
Image::Magick
module can’t be found then read
Getting ImageMagick and PerlMagick working on Fedora Core.
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ArthurClemens - 19 May 2007
Thanks for documenting this and
HowToInstallImageMagickOnMacOsX.
All ImageMagick support topics:
DirectGraphPluginBadFileDescriptor,
DirectedGraphPluginError,
DirectedGraphPluginError1,
FlowchartPluginFails,
GenPDFAddOnImageErrors,
HowToInstallImageMagickOnMacOsX,
HowToInstallImageMagickOnRedHat,
HowToInstallImageMagickOnSuse,
HowToUseMsOfficeAttachmentsAsHTMLPlugin,
ImageGalleryPluginAndImageMagick,
LatexModePluginMakesEmptyImages,
MediaWikiLikeImagePlugin,
NoThumbnailsWithImageGalleryPlugin,
PluginCausesError,
PluginInstallScriptForLinux,
ProblemWithDirectGraphPluginError2,
SID-00009,
SID-00271,
SID-00936,
SID-01196,
SID-01962,
SID-02357,
UserListByPhotographNotWorking,
WebStatistics
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PeterThoeny - 06 Jun 2007
Thanks
AC,
I've used the same instructions, modified ever so slightly for
HowToInstallImageMagickOnSuse. The only difference was that we use the YAST setup tool provided by suse to install
libjpeg-devel
instead of 'yum' which is specific to redhat.
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KeithHelfrich - 08 Jun 2007