Installing the RMagick gem can be a huge headache. Reading the HOWTO on the RMagick site is enough to make anyone nervous. Thankfully the process is much easier on ubuntu however; you only need three commands.
DISCLAIMER: I’ve only tested this on Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty) server.
$ sudo aptitude install -y imagemagick $ sudo aptitude install -y libmagick9-dev $ sudo gem install rmagick |
And you’re done! You can verify the installation using this irb command, taken from the RMagick HOWTO:
$ sudo irb -rubygems -r RMagick irb(main):001:0> puts Magick::Long_version This is RMagick 2.10.0 ($Date: 2009/06/19 22:07:05 $) Copyright (C) 2009 by Timothy P. Hunter Built with ImageMagick 6.4.5 2009-06-04 Q16 OpenMP http://www.imagemagick.org Built for ruby 1.8.7 Web page: http://rmagick.rubyforge.org Email: rmagick@rubyforge.org => nil |
hey, it is very nice tutorial,
great help
thankss…
thanks a lot. worked for me
sudo gem install rmagick
wont work for me is there something i’m missing?
Thanks! This saved me hours of time. 🙂