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

[Daniel Räbiger <dreffects@xxxxxx>]

YEAH!

i need version 5.x - there are several files  - one ending with i586 and one
with i386 and one with ppc and one with src... which one should i choose ?
:)

thanks for your help man!

regards
daniel

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Nico Meijer" <nico.meijer@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, October 15, 2001 8:25 PM
Subject: A little OT (rpm in general?), WAS: Re: [cobalt-users] Image Magick


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

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