# Cant install RMagick from gems

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cant-install-rmagick-from-gems/55218>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [March 18, 2006, 12:49am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cant-install-rmagick-from-gems/55218 "2006-03-18T00:49:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ryutaro\_Amano](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/ee59a6/32.png) [@Ryutaro\_Amano](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Ryutaro_Amano)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2006, 12:49am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cant-install-rmagick-from-gems/55218/1 "2006-03-18T00:49:44Z")

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I tried install Rmagick from gems, but didn’t it.

ruby -v  
ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-24) [i386-mswin32]  
gem -v  
0.8.11  
I have downloaded RMagick-1.9.2-IM-6.2.4-6-win32.zip from  
[http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group\_id=12&release\_id=3031](http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=12&release_id=3031)

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## [c:\mytemp\RMagick-1.9.1-IM-6.2.3-win32]gem install RMagick- win32-1.9.2-mswin32.gem Attempting local installation of ‘RMagick-win32-1.9.2-mswin32.gem’ Successfully installed RMagick-win32, version 1.9.2 [c:\mytemp\RMagick-1.9.1-IM-6.2.3-win32]ruby postinstall.rb RMagick 1.9.2 win32 Post Installation (see enclosed README for license information) detecting available fonts, writing to config/type-windows.xml…ok. setting MAGICK\_CONFIGURE\_PATH to ‘C:/ruby184/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ RMagick-win32-1.9.2-mswin32/config’. setting is only for current user. Copying 5 dlls to C:/ruby184/bin…done. all done.

## ruby test.rb

## [c:\myruby]ruby rmagick.rb ./RMagick.rb:4: uninitialized constant Magick (NameError) from C:/ruby184/lib/ruby/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems/ custom\_require.rb:21:in `require’ from rmagick.rb:2

## test.rb is

require ‘rubygems’  
require ‘RMagick’

## puts Magick::Long\_version

I tried install progressbar using gems, the progressbar works well.  
Why does’nt work RMagick ?  
I need ImageMagick-6.2.4 dll ?

Ryutaro Amano  
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**Post date:** [March 18, 2006, 6:05pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cant-install-rmagick-from-gems/55218/2 "2006-03-18T18:05:11Z")

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Hi,

Can you repost this on the help forum in the RMagick project section on  
rubyforge ? This is where Tim H. (the project’s author) and I (your  
humble windows packager) will definitly try to get you up and running.

([http://rubyforge.org/forum/forum.php?forum\_id=33](http://rubyforge.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=33))

Thank you.  
kaspar