Rmagick on Ubuntu Gotcha
I’ve been caught out by this a couple of times so I thought I would sort post it here as a reminder and helper:
Installing my rails stack on a Ubuntu VPS at Slicehost for my new rails site which uses Imagemagick for photo handling, rails uses rmagick gem to interface with it. I did this:
sudo apt-get install imagemagick
and then go to install the rmagick gem with:
sudo gem install rmagick
but get this error:
configure: error: Can't install RMagick. Can't find Magick-config or GraphicsMagick-config program.
Weird, but it turns out you need a little something extra to be able to install RMagick which is “libmagick9-dev” so just install this:
sudo apt-get install libmagick9-dev
and then you can install the rmagick gem just fine, hope this helps someone out.
It did indeed help someone out.. thank you.
Rustin on July 11, 2007 4:41 pm
Glad I could help
Andrew on July 11, 2007 4:46 pm
Helped someone else out too, thank you!
Jon on July 13, 2007 2:04 pm