Installing rmagick on Ubuntu

Question

I\'m trying to get RMagick setup on Ubuntu 10.04. Looked here but had no joy. I even compiled and installed ImageMagick from source, but the instructions here still didn\'t

Answer 1

On Ubuntu, you can run:

sudo apt-get install libmagickwand-dev

On Centos, you can run:

sudo yum install gcc ImageMagick-devel make which

Then install

gem install rmagick

Answer 2

To get bundle to stop failing on ubuntu 12.04.

apt-get install graphicsmagick-libmagick-dev-compat libmagickwand-dev

This is my gemfile

gem 'rmagick' 
gem 'mini_magick' 

Answer 3

On Ubuntu 12.0.4.2 sudo apt-get install libmagickwand-dev libmagickcore-dev libmagickcore4-extra libgraphviz-dev libgvc5 worked for me.

graphicsmagick-libmagick-dev-compat installed but didn't include the header files so rmagick wouldn't compile.

Please note, you need to remove graphicsmagick-libmagick-dev-compat before running the command above.

Answer 4

You got message extconf.rb:1:in 'require': no such file to load -- mkmf (LoadError) because package ruby1.8-dev isn't installed. Install it (sudo apt-get install ruby1.8-dev) and try again.

Answer 5

On Ubuntu 12.04 libmagick9-dev is gone. graphicsmagick-libmagick-dev-compat should be used instead.

apt-get install graphicsmagick-libmagick-dev-compat

Answer 6

On Ubuntu 15.04, what solved it for me was to remove all previous *magick installations, reinstall required packages and then symlink the config file:

sudo apt-get purge graphicsmagick graphicsmagick-dbg imagemagick-common imagemagick imagemagick-6.q16 libmagickcore-6-headers libmagickwand-dev graphicsmagick-libmagick-dev-compat
sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo apt-get install imagemagick libmagickwand-dev
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ImageMagick-6.8.9/bin-Q16/Magick-config /usr/bin/Magick-config
gem install rmagick