Error installing rmagick: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension

Question

I am trying to run one project on my local machine. I installed Ruby and Rails on my Mac OS system. It is working properly. I can create a new project and can run it properl

Answer 1

Solution for Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install imagemagick

ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ImageMagick-6.8.9/bin-Q16/Magick-config /usr/bin/Magick-config

Answer 2

here's what i did on 16.04,

sudo apt-get install libmagickwand-dev
sudo apt-get install graphicsmagick-imagemagick-compat

and then install gem like that

PATH="/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ImageMagick-6.8.9/bin-Q16:$PATH" gem install rmagick -v '2.13.2'

Answer 3

For Fedora 27 I resolved this problem:

sudo dnf install ImageMagick-devel ImageMagick
gem install rmagick

Answer 4

For Ubuntu Server, I installed it by doing this:

sudo apt-get install imagemagick

sudo apt-get install libmagick++-dev

sudo gem install rmagick -v '2.15.4'

Answer 5

For mac users, install imagemagick 6 since the newest version 7 isn't compatible.

brew install imagemagick@6
gem install rmagick

The above should work after you uninstall what you already have.

Answer 6

For linux fedora, i got same error and fixed with below two commands:

yum install ImageMagick

gem install rmagick 

For Centos install ImageMagick-devel package. using below commands:

yum install ImageMagick-devel

gem install rmagick

Thanks.