Problems installing Rmagick on Ubuntu

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I want to install Rmagick on Ubuntu 7.10, but i am getting this error when running gem install rmagick:

Can't install RMagick 2.2.0. You must have ImageMagick 6.3.0 or later.

(I installed imagemagick and libmagick9-dev prior to that)

I installed rmagick through Synaptic, and it says that i have version 7:6.2.4.5.dfsg1-2ubuntu1 installed (by the way, what does the 7 mean?). What should i do to have the gem install correctly?

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Is it possible you need to run ldconfig? Or add something to your /etc/ld.so.conf ?

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I know for 6.06 there is a libmagick-ruby library that needs to be installed as well. - Richard

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I have no idea, should i? And if so: how? :slight_smile: I'm a newbie to Ubuntu...

And I have libmagick-ruby and libmagick-ruby1.8 installed.

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Could someone 'sew up' this topic and possibly list what one must do to install RMagick upon a Ubuntu 7.10 configuration? I would be most grateful as I too, am like many who have failed at this endeavor. Thank you, Kathleen

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This should do the trick.

sudo apt-get install ruby rubygems irb ri rdoc ruby1.8-dev build- essential imagemagick libmagick9 libmagick9-dev

sudo gem install rmagick -v=1.15.10

richard@richard-desktop:~$ irb irb(main):001:0> require 'rubygems' => true irb(main):002:0> require 'RMagick' => true irb(main):003:0> Magick::CenterGravity => CenterGravity=5 irb(main):004:0>

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Hi Thanks,

It is very helpful for me.

Shrikant