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How to upgrade ImageMagick?
Posted: 2014-07-25T10:31:50-07:00
by noobie2
I have ImageMagick 6.5.4-7 installed on my server and just noticed version 6.8.9-5 is available. I'm assuming it would be a good idea to upgrade, since that's a pretty significant version difference, but I'm not sure exactly how. I have a VPS running CENTOS 6.5 i686.
Should I just follow
these instructions (from the downloads page), or is updating a different process from when first installing?
$ rpm -Uvh ImageMagick-6.8.9-5.i386.rpm
For other systems, create (or choose) a directory to install the package into and change to that directory, for example:
$ cd $HOME
Next, extract the contents of the package. For example:
$ tar xvzf ImageMagick.tar.gz
Set the MAGICK_HOME environment variable to the path where you extracted the ImageMagick files. For example:
$ export MAGICK_HOME="$HOME/ImageMagick-6.8.9"
If the bin subdirectory of the extracted package is not already in your executable search path, add it to your PATH environment variable. For example:
$ export PATH="$MAGICK_HOME/bin:$PATH"
On Linux and Solaris machines add $MAGICK_HOME/lib to the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable:
$ LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${LD_LIBRARY_PATH:+$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:}$MAGICK_HOME/lib"
$ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
Finally, to verify ImageMagick is working properly, type the following on the command line:
$ convert logo: logo.gif
$ identify logo.gif
$ display logo.gif
Re: How to upgrade ImageMagick?
Posted: 2014-07-25T12:03:44-07:00
by noobie2
Patience has never been a virtue of mine, so I went ahead and tried to follow the instructions on the download page to install the latest version, but it didn't work.
I tried this command:
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rpm -Uvh http://www.imagemagick.org/download/linux/CentOS/i386/ImageMagick-6.8.9-6.i386.rpm
Output:
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Retrieving http://www.imagemagick.org/download/linux/CentOS/i386/ImageMagick-6.8.9-6.i386.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
libfftw3.so.3 is needed by ImageMagick-6.8.9-6.i386
libltdl.so.3 is needed by ImageMagick-6.8.9-6.i386
libMagickCore.so.2 is needed by (installed) ImageMagick-devel-6.5.4.7-7.el6_5.i686
libMagickCore.so.2 is needed by (installed) ImageMagick-c++-6.5.4.7-7.el6_5.i686
libMagickCore.so.2 is needed by (installed) ImageMagick-perl-6.5.4.7-7.el6_5.i686
libMagickWand.so.2 is needed by (installed) ImageMagick-devel-6.5.4.7-7.el6_5.i686
libMagickWand.so.2 is needed by (installed) ImageMagick-c++-6.5.4.7-7.el6_5.i686
libMagickWand.so.2 is needed by (installed) ImageMagick-perl-6.5.4.7-7.el6_5.i686
ImageMagick = 6.5.4.7-7.el6_5 is needed by (installed) ImageMagick-devel-6.5.4.7-7.el6_5.i686
ImageMagick = 6.5.4.7-7.el6_5 is needed by (installed) ImageMagick-c++-6.5.4.7-7.el6_5.i686
ImageMagick = 6.5.4.7-7.el6_5 is needed by (installed) ImageMagick-perl-6.5.4.7-7.el6_5.i686
Re: How to upgrade ImageMagick?
Posted: 2014-07-29T09:26:25-07:00
by noobie2
Hmm.. anyone?
Re: How to upgrade ImageMagick?
Posted: 2014-07-29T09:57:38-07:00
by Bonzo
Did it once on a couple of servers virtually identical and on one it worked and one it failed. Tried it on my server and messed it up and had the server admins upgrade it. Works but they must have done something wrong as I need to use /usr/local/bin/convert instead of convert
I did post the method I used on the forum somewhere but I can not find it now.