A little OT (rpm in general?), WAS: Re: [cobalt-users] Image Magick

[Nico Meijer <nico.meijer@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Daniel,

> how does this work ?


I hope you are comfortable with command line work on a (RedHat) Linux box.

You can install ImageMagick (not(!) Image::Magick) by wget'ing the 
following link:
ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/redhat/6.2/en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/ImageMagick-4.2.9-3.i386.rpm

(watch out for my linewrapping; better head on over to 
http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM and do a search on ImageMagick, which will 
list among others the RedHat 6.2 rpm)

su to root and issue "rpm -Uvh [/path/to/]ImageMagick-4.2.9-3.i386.rpm". 
This will install ImageMagick unless certain dependencies are not met. 
rpm will tell you which programs it needs, which you can again find on 
rpmfind.net.

If you for some reason need a newer version of ImageMagick, you might 
want to check if the RawHide version for i386 (currently ImageMagick 
5.3.9) will install. You can test if an rpm will install by issueing 
"rpm -Uvh [whatever].rpm --test". This will do a dry run and not change 
anything on your system.

You also might try to find a source rpm; something in the line of 
"ImageMagick-[version].src.rpm", which you can install by issueing "rpm 
--rebuild [whatever].src.rpm". It will leave a ready-to-install rpm 
somewhere in /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/*. Very neat and usually hassle-free.

Mind you: don't include my quotes when entering a command on the command 
line.

I hope this info will get you started.

Good luck... Nico