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ImageMagick

Posted by Jim on December 7, 2006

How do you install ImageMagick on Fedora Core 4?

The support RPM’s did not include FC4, and running yum install ImageMagick did not return any results. I went to the ImageMagick web site at www.imagemagick.org and compiled from source.

How do you compile ImageMagick from source for Linux and Fedora Core 4?

Easy!

  1. Check to see if ImageMagick is already installed
    1. convert -version
  2. Download ImageMagick.tar.gz from ftp.imagemagick.org or its mirrors
  3. If you downloaded it locally, transfer the file to your server with SCP or WINSCP3
  4. Unpack the file on your server
    1. gunzip -c ImageMagick.tar.gz | tar xvf -
  5. Next step, configure and then compile ImageMagick
    1. cd ImageMagick-6.?.?
    2. ./configure
    3. make
  6. No error messages, so time to install ImageMagick
  7. make install
  8. Verify that the installation was a success
    1. /usr/local/bin/convert logo: logo.gif
    2. convert -version

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