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Setting up rmagick on Ubuntu

by Emmanuel on February 06, 2008

I wanted to update rmagick to the latest version of the gem, so I ran

sudo gem install rmagick

The version that was going to be installed was 2.1.0, and it needed ImageMagick lib 6.3.x.

I went ahead and downloaded 6.3.8 from ImageMagick site (couldn’t use apt-get this time, latest version on repositories I found was 6.2.4.5). I had a previous version of ImageMagick laying on my system. So I ran:

sudo apt-get remove imagemagick 

tar xvvzf ImageMagick.tar.gz 

cd ImageMagick 

./configure –prefix=/usr 

make 

sudo make install 

sudo gem install rmagick 

sudo gem install rmagick -v 1.15.12 // if you want rmagick v1 installed. 

That’s all!

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Comments

midjar at 12:08 AM on February 11 2008

couldn’t comment on your other post. so here goes…

got this problem with your sliding_session plugin: NoMethodError (protected method `reset_session’ called for

Any idea?

jeff at 9:41 PM on February 13 2008

Thanks for catching that… must have changed in rails 2.0. Fixed now.

PiriketSeverler at 7:10 PM on February 18 2008

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