Can't install latest version on Ubuntu

[kamcknig]

I've installed the Imagemagick package from the Ubuntu Software Center, but then found out that the grayscale option of convert doesnt exist. Apparently this is due to the fact that the Imagemagick in the Software Center is outdated.

So I removed it, then downloaded the rpm from Imagemagick's website and tried to install it via alien using sudo alien -i <package>.rpm... this fails with with a conflicting packages error but isn't detailed. I also tried converting it to a deb and installing and got the same types of errors.

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sudo alien -i ImageMagick-6.8.9-5.x86_64.rpm 
	dpkg --no-force-overwrite -i imagemagick_6.8.9-6_amd64.deb
dpkg: regarding imagemagick_6.8.9-6_amd64.deb containing imagemagick:
 imagemagick-doc conflicts with imagemagick (<= 7:6.4.0)
  imagemagick (version 6.8.9-6) is to be installed.

dpkg: error processing archive imagemagick_6.8.9-6_amd64.deb (--install):
 conflicting packages - not installing imagemagick
Errors were encountered while processing:
 imagemagick_6.8.9-6_amd64.deb
Unable to install at /usr/share/perl5/Alien/Package/Deb.pm line 92, <GETPERMS> line 298.
	find ImageMagick-6.8.9 -type d -exec chmod 755 {} ;
	rm -rf ImageMagick-6.8.9

Could anyone help me out with this? I'm still fairly new to Ubuntu too, so I'm not sure if this is because of something left over from the Software Center intsall/unintsall or something else, and am not sure how to find out.

[kamcknig]

Sorry, I found the answer in another post.


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