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you can replace wget with “curl -O” since wget ins’t installed by default on Leopard.

there’s a problem with the hostname:

-13:34:46- http://imagemagick.site2nd.org/imagemagick/ImageMagick-6.3.5-9.tar.gz => `ImageMagick-6.3.5-9.tar.gz’ Auflösen des Hostnamen »imagemagick.site2nd.org«…. 208.101.21.223 Verbindungsaufbau zu imagemagick.site2nd.org|208.101.21.223|:80… fehlgeschlagen: Operation timed out. Erneuter Versuch.

-13:36:02- http://imagemagick.site2nd.org/imagemagick/ImageMagick-6.3.5-9.tar.gz (Versuch: 2) => `ImageMagick-6.3.5-9.tar.gz’ Verbindungsaufbau zu imagemagick.site2nd.org|208.101.21.223|:80… fehlgeschlagen: Operation timed out. Erneuter Versuch.

wget http://imagemagick.site2nd.org/imagemagick/ImageMagick-6.3.5-9.tar.gz tar xzvf ImageMagick-6.3.5-9.tar.gz

does not work … unknown host!!

I replaced it with:

wget ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/unix/X11/graphics/ImageMagick/ImageMagick-6.3.6-4.tar.gz tar xzvf ImageMagick-6.3.6-4.tar.gz cd ImageMagick-6.3.6 export CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include export LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/lib ./configure—prefix=/usr/local—disable-static—with-modules—without-perl—without-magick-plus-plus—with-quantum-depth=8—with-gs-font-dir=/usr/local/share/ghostscript/fonts make

...and everything works fine….

@jim: yes, I installed wget before setting up RMagick, but “curl -O” works for a stock installation.

@gissmoh : yes, this script uses mirrors that are close to me. YMMV depending on prevailing network conditions.

Thanks for the updates!

I just wanted to say thanks, this script saved me a lot of thinking. I can’t believe the whole script worked fine. Having been on linux for so long, I just expected something to go wrong. I guess that’s the benefit of not having a bunch of different distros.

Many thanks for compiling all the necessary dependencies in one place. It was a nightmare trying get rmagik to work when I got my laptop last December.

The original ftp url for the jpeg lib gave me a authorization error so I substituted:

http://www.ijg.org/files/jpegsrc.v6b.tar.gz

And the forces of goodness and niceness triumph once again.

Nice work.

Can I just say many thanks for this, this is one of the few multi install scripts that I have used that have worked right off of the bat.

Nice one!

Thanks a lot for this script—this was my first time installing RMagick and it went very smoothly (after fixing the URLs for the JPEG and Ghostscript fonts downloads). From what I read online about installing RMagick, you just saved me A LOT of time. Thanks!

Got everything installed…. Rmagick shows in my gems, but when I require ‘remagick’ I get “no such file to load — rmagick”. Any thoughts from anyone reading this?

@Tim: you need to require ‘RMagick’, notice the capitalization

@Lee: I previously tried that too… Here is my interaction in irb.

irb(main):001:0> require ‘RMagick’
LoadError: no such file to load—RMagick
     from (irb):1:in `require’
     from (irb):1
irb(main):002:0>

awesome. nice work. took like 20 minutes on my 2GHz macbook, but seems to have worked…

Even after make uninstalling and retrying I wasn’t successful. While I never got an error I could not require RMagick into Ruby… I did a bit of searching and found that is a Ruby script that came out on 11/4/07 on RubyForge that worked perfectly. It automatically downloads everything you need and worked awesome:

http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=12&release_id=16101

SetupRailsonLeopard. I just completed my Rails setup, thanks Tim you rock, this is the quick rundown on it.

A good link to compile wget once and for all on leopard : http://radio.javaranch.com/bear/2005/03/02/1109829480523.html

Thanks for this script !

Thanks a lot!! Worked a treat apart from the URL issues which were commented about above.

Dude… you are an absolute saviour! I’ve been going crazy trying to get ImageMagick working as I want it in Leopard. I changed the URLs as required and it worked great.

Thank you so much!

I had great success with the rm_install.rb script that is available at RubyForge’s RMagick http://rmagick.rubyforge.org/ page . It automates the process, much like the above script, but seems to do more clean up, error handling, etc. After trying to get it working on OSX for so long, to no avail, I finally have it. It’s good day.

thanks so much, worked like a champ.

irb(main):001:0> require 'rubygems'
=> true
irb(main):002:0> require 'RMagick'
=> true

Excellent, thanks a lot.

Your ImageMagick link was broken for me, but I found another here: http://ftp.surfnet.nl/pub/ImageMagick/ImageMagick-6.3.5-9.tar.gz

@Tim

You may also need to require ‘rubygems’ before requiring RMagick in irb (depending if you are using an .irbrc or not). Somehow my OS X install of Ruby auto-installed an .irbrc for me. I posted an example of it here: http://pastie.org/158471

Hope that helps,

justin

hmmm, when i follow this guide, i eventually get this at the end (after gem install RMagick): ERROR: could not find RMagick locally or in a repository

any ideas/

@Peter: If you didn’t figure this out already, the gem is in fact called ‘rmagick’, so “sudo gem install rmagick” should work for you.

there was a problem with both ghostscript ftps, so I substituted:

wget http://ufpr.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/ghostscript/ghostscript-8.60.tar.gz

and

wget http://ufpr.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/ghostscript/ghostscript-fonts-std-8.11.tar.gz

Thank you very much! Everything worked! :)

I think it’s sudo gem install rmagick not RMagick. Otherwise everything worked pretty well with the urls from Julie.

Nice script. I did the steps and it didn’t work on my end. Something about the headers. I’m trying the OSX installer now provided on the forge, I think it pretty much does what your script does but I’ll wait and see.

Hi, I’m just wondering why you didn’t compile Ghostscript as a framework (which seems to be the recommended way) and if you’ve tested that your IM can actually call GS to delegate vector formats.

Hi, I’m just wondering why you didn’t compile Ghostscript as a framework (which seems to be the recommended way) and if you’ve tested that your IM can actually call GS to delegate vector formats.

This worked pretty well on a brand new Leopard system. I used curl and adjusted some URLs, as mentioned by others already.

I’d like to point out two problems:

1. It’s important you build a later version of libpng, as there’s a vulnerability in the version given here.
2. If you see this error during the installation phase of the jpeg ”/usr/local/man/man1/cjpeg.1: No such file or directory” it just indicates that the directory /usr/local/man/man1 doesn’t exist and you need to create it before running the install.

Thanks for putting this together… it saved me a ton of headaches.

Thanks to Julie for the URL’s. Saved me a heap of time.

Thanks from me also.