Installing RMagick on Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty)

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

4 thoughts on “Installing RMagick on Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty)”

  3. sudo gem install rmagick

    wont work for me is there something i’m missing?

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