ImageMagick?

[SouthernCharm]

Has anyone managed to get ImageMagick working on their VPS? I would really like to have this feature, but so far I'm not having much luck.

[SouthernCharm]

Well, for anyone wondering, ImageMagick is NOT installed by default for VPS Unix server. In addition, many of the most basic things required to install the package yourself were NOT installed by default. I was absolutely dismayed to find that even gcc wasn't installed with Fedora 4. And, of course, many of the things that gcc requires to work are not installed. Absurd!

So, in order to help others who are like me and want to get ImageMagick installed on your servers, here's what you'll first need to do

1. Download and install glibc-devel-2.3.5-10.i386.rpm
2. Download and install cpp-4.0.0-8.i386.rpm
3. Download and install gcc-4.0.1-4.fc4.i386.rpm

(Yes, these are older versions. You need to install any updates for the aforementioned things, too. My particular VPS seems to be running Fedora Core 4. Behind, much?) :eek:

At any rate, that's just to get a c compiler in order to install the ImageMagick binary (or other binaries that require a make file). Depending on what you get back when trying to install ImageMagick, you may need to download and install a bunch of other rpms. The install will tell you what is missing.



What a nightmare. One request, please. If you're going to give us a VPS or dedicated servers, how about also giving us the tools that are usually installed de facto on UNIX servers. I would *much* rather have the above than a bunch of crap I don't ever intend to use, like Mambo. (Why Mambo but no Joomla, anyway?!)

[inc595]

I would image gcc is not installed as it is not normally installed on most dedicated servers. Since most users don't even log into SSH much less compile their own binaries. Usually RPMs are used to install software on an RPM based OS such as Fedora. The following link has these binaries for ImageMagick.

http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/2974438/com/ImageMagick-6.2.2.0-3.fc4.2.i386.rpm.html

Also a Virtuozzo VPS systems are template based. I would imagine that the OS template provided by Swsoft is what Gate is using.

[krakle]

Install YUM. Then via YUM install GCC. Then via YUM install Image Magick. That's what I did... It was easy. Look for a thread in the VPS section about installing GCC or Yum. Someone posts the exact commands to get YUM installed.

This will be a lot easier.

[gatesupport]

Yes, package management is what makes linux so great.