Question

I’m running into the infamous problem of installing ImageMagick on an RPM based system. After, not surprisingly, finding out that the version available in the repos is too old, I downloaded the available RPM on their website and installed that.

Apparently though its not the ImageMagick-devel package that’s in the repos, as I’m now getting errors about Magick-config not existing. But I have no idea where to download the -devel package thats compatible with the much newer version of ImageMagick that I have.

Where is a place that I can download this?

Answer 1

This was solved by manually building from the source tar.gz. I chose not to use a dev build like @Krishna because that’s a bit too bleeding edge.

Note: This requires that you uninstall Imagemagick and Imagemagick-devel from the repositories first.

Installation instructions: http://www.imagemagick.org/script/install-source.php#unix

I used checkinstall to get an RPM from it so that I can uninstall it later.