RMagick Installation woes

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Hi,

I need to install Rmagick to get re-sizing working with Paperclip. My dev machine is on Mac OSX Leopard and the server is on Ubuntu Intrepid 8.1

I dint have Macports or wget at first. I was following this article - http://onrails.org/articles/2007/11/03/installing-rmagick-on-leopard-without-macports-or-fink. Ive done this before too. But some dependency always failed.

I want to start with a clean slate now, given that ive installed wget and Macports too. I need some guidance on the following

1. Removing installed/ half-installed versions of the dependencies in the above post from my local machine. 2. I have macports but dont have XCode 3.1 and dont have an apple developer account so should i go get one or rather install using the above article? 3. Any reliable article on how to install on Ubuntu Intrepid?

Thanks.

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For Ubuntu you can try following commands:

$ sudo apt-get install imagemagick $ sudo apt-get update --fix-missing && sudo apt-get install imagemagick # only if above commands fails for some reason $ sudo apt-get install libmagick9-dev $ sudo gem install rmagick

Thanks, Abhinav

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I finally got everything installed and working on my dev machine by removing downloaded dependencies and then following http://pastie.org/282226 with wget.

Thank you Abhinav. I will try your suggestion when installing on the server.