# Installing RMagick on UBUNTU 9.04

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**Created:** [October 1, 2009, 9:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installing-rmagick-on-ubuntu-9-04/176545 "2009-10-01T21:40:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![techtimer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/97f17d/32.png) [@techtimer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/techtimer)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2009, 9:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installing-rmagick-on-ubuntu-9-04/176545/1 "2009-10-01T21:40:17Z")

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I installed ImageMagick 6.5.6 and all seems to be installed ok.

I downloaded ImageMagick 6.5.6

I entered  
$ ./configure

and everything seems OK. When I enter  
$ identify -version

I get  
Version: ImageMagick 6.5.6-6 2009-09-30 Q8 OpenMP

> **[ImageMagick](https://imagemagick.org/index.php)**
>
> Create, Edit, Compose, or Convert Digital Images

Copyright: Copyright (C) 1999-2009 ImageMagick Studio LLC

I then enter  
$ sudo gem install rmagick  
I get  
Building native extensions. This could take a while…  
Successfully installed rmagick-2.11.1  
1 gem installed

To check the install I enter  
$ sudo irb -rubygems -r RMagick

and I get

/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rmagick-2.11.1/lib/  
RMagick2.so:RuntimeError: This installation of RMagick was configured  
with ImageMagick 6.5.6 but ImageMagick 6.4.5 is in use.

what am I doing wrong? How can I fix this? Thank you for your help.

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**Author:** ![techtimer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/97f17d/32.png) [@techtimer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/techtimer)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2009, 12:55am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installing-rmagick-on-ubuntu-9-04/176545/2 "2009-10-02T00:55:48Z")

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When i did this i did it from apt and not source and it worked  
cleanly, all i had to do was install the libmagick packages.

If you are able to, then just go with the packages. If you are stuck  
with source then sorry my reply isnt any help.

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**Author:** ![techtimer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/97f17d/32.png) [@techtimer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/techtimer)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2009, 3:18am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installing-rmagick-on-ubuntu-9-04/176545/3 "2009-10-02T03:18:04Z")

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Thanks Kyle,

I uninstalled the source version using make uninstall and reinstalled  
using the packages. I was finally successful. I appreciate your quick  
response