# Ok, Uncle on Rmagic **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [March 5, 2007, 10:02am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ok-uncle-on-rmagic/87699 "2007-03-05T10:02:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![divotdave](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/bbe5ce/32.png) [@divotdave](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/divotdave)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2007, 10:02am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ok-uncle-on-rmagic/87699/1 "2007-03-05T10:02:51Z")
I am a total newb in RoR. But this community looks awesome. Am really looking forward to learning Ruby and its elements. Having said that, the following is a really crummy problem. Am running Fedora Core 6. Ruby installed fine. Gem appears to have installed as well. Went to install the Ruby Asset manager and the following… configure: error: Can’t install RMagick. Can’t find libMagick or one of the dependent libraries. Check the config.log file for more detailed information. I searched and know this is a known issue. I’ve mucked around trying to figure out how to get past the problem. The libMagick .so files are located in /usr/local/lib. I yum’d the ImageMagick-devel installation as was recommended. And a few other things. And continue to get the same error. Help? I know this is a really simple problem, but am fresh into Ruby on Rails and felt I should ask. I will learn more and more as I get into, but am asking for help on this. tia ---
**Author:** ![divotdave](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/bbe5ce/32.png) [@divotdave](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/divotdave)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2007, 2:19pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ok-uncle-on-rmagic/87699/2 "2007-03-05T14:19:08Z")
David H. wrote: > I am a total newb in RoR. But this community looks awesome. Am really > looking forward to learning Ruby and its elements. > > Having said that, the following is a really crummy problem. Am running > Fedora Core 6. Ruby installed fine. Gem appears to have installed as > well. Went to install the Ruby Asset manager and the following… > > configure: error: Can’t install RMagick. Can’t find libMagick or one of > the dependent libraries. > Check the config.log file for more detailed > information. > > I searched and know this is a known issue. I’ve mucked around trying to > figure out how to get past the problem. The libMagick .so files are > located in /usr/local/lib. I yum’d the ImageMagick-devel installation > as was recommended. And a few other things. And continue to get the > same error. > > Help? I know this is a really simple problem, but am fresh into Ruby on > Rails and felt I should ask. I will learn more and more as I get into, > but am asking for help on this. > > tia > Check this out: [http://rmagick.rubyforge.org/install-faq.html#libmagick](http://rmagick.rubyforge.org/install-faq.html#libmagick). > If that doesn’t help. email rmagick AT rubyforge DOT org. The Installing RMagick on Linux HOWTO is here: http:/rmagick.rubyforge.org/install-linux.html. ---
**Author:** ![divotdave](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/bbe5ce/32.png) [@divotdave](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/divotdave)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2007, 5:25am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ok-uncle-on-rmagic/87699/3 "2007-03-06T05:25:40Z")
On Mar 5, 6:09 pm, David H. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Thank you for this response. I will study the URL and see if I can > break this logjam. Am anxious to get under the hood and learn. If your main goal is to learn Ruby/Ruby on Rails, then I might suggest doing so with an application that doesn’t require rmagick. Even after working with Ruby for a couple of years on various systems, I still occasionally curse at my computer when I have to do an rmagick installation. I’d recommend picking up a copy of “Agile Web Development with Ruby on Rails” and “Programming Ruby”. Those two books should give you a good start, and you can worry about things like rmagick after you’ve decided that you want to stick with Ruby. I would hate to see your frustration with a package that you may not even need end up turning you off to the language all together. – Regards, John W. ---
**Author:** ![divotdave](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/bbe5ce/32.png) [@divotdave](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/divotdave)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2007, 3:09am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ok-uncle-on-rmagic/87699/4 "2007-03-06T03:09:07Z")
Thank you for this response. I will study the URL and see if I can break this logjam. Am anxious to get under the hood and learn. drh Tim H. wrote: > David H. wrote: > > > I am a total newb in RoR. But this community looks awesome. Am really > > looking forward to learning Ruby and its elements. > > > > Having said that, the following is a really crummy problem. Am running > > Fedora Core 6. Ruby installed fine. Gem appears to have installed as > > well. Went to install the Ruby Asset manager and the following… > > > > configure: error: Can’t install RMagick. Can’t find libMagick or one of > > the dependent libraries. > > Check the config.log file for more detailed > > information. > > > > I searched and know this is a known issue. I’ve mucked around trying to > > figure out how to get past the problem. The libMagick .so files are > > located in /usr/local/lib. I yum’d the ImageMagick-devel installation > > as was recommended. And a few other things. And continue to get the > > same error. > > > > Help? I know this is a really simple problem, but am fresh into Ruby on > > Rails and felt I should ask. I will learn more and more as I get into, > > but am asking for help on this. > > > > tia > > Check this out: [http://rmagick.rubyforge.org/install-faq.html#libmagick](http://rmagick.rubyforge.org/install-faq.html#libmagick). > > If that doesn’t help. email rmagick AT rubyforge DOT org. > > The Installing RMagick on Linux HOWTO is here: > http:/rmagick.rubyforge.org/install-linux.html. ---
**Author:** ![divotdave](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/bbe5ce/32.png) [@divotdave](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/divotdave)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2007, 5:35am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ok-uncle-on-rmagic/87699/5 "2007-03-06T05:35:40Z")
David H. wrote: > information. > I don’t know the specifics of how you need to use RMagick, but if it’s > fairly simple you can try just shelling out to imagemagick. In my case, > I only needed to resize an image, so I just used backtick to call the > imagemagick convert command: `convert -resize 480x360 #{temp_file_path} #{file_path}` As long as imagemagick has been installed (fairly common on Linux), it works fine. Switching to RMagick as been on my list, but it’s way down on the list 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![divotdave](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/bbe5ce/32.png) [@divotdave](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/divotdave)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2007, 9:21am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ok-uncle-on-rmagic/87699/6 "2007-03-06T09:21:56Z")
Was interested in looking at the asset manager which requires RMagick. Will fuss with the dependency problem in the morning. Was just quite interested to see what the current Ruby Asset Manager did, and was it far enough along to bolt on some additional apps. Tx a mil for the response. Brian A. wrote: > David H. wrote: > > > information. > > I don’t know the specifics of how you need to use RMagick, but if it’s > > fairly simple you can try just shelling out to imagemagick. In my case, > > I only needed to resize an image, so I just used backtick to call the > > imagemagick convert command: > > `convert -resize 480x360 #{temp_file_path} #{file_path}` > > As long as imagemagick has been installed (fairly common on Linux), it > works fine. Switching to RMagick as been on my list, but it’s way down > on the list 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![divotdave](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/bbe5ce/32.png) [@divotdave](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/divotdave)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2007, 9:20am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ok-uncle-on-rmagic/87699/7 "2007-03-06T09:20:10Z")
This is of course saged advice. I am not so easily discouraged by yet another dependency that complains… but agree that working through some books and tasks to see if it for me is the smart thing. John W. wrote: > On Mar 5, 6:09 pm, David H. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > > Thank you for this response. I will study the URL and see if I can > > break this logjam. Am anxious to get under the hood and learn. > > If your main goal is to learn Ruby/Ruby on Rails, then I might suggest > doing so with an application that doesn’t require rmagick. Even after > working with Ruby for a couple of years on various systems, I still > occasionally curse at my computer when I have to do an rmagick > installation. I’d recommend picking up a copy of “Agile Web > Development with Ruby on Rails” and “Programming Ruby”. Those two > books should give you a good start, and you can worry about things > like rmagick after you’ve decided that you want to stick with Ruby. > > I would hate to see your frustration with a package that you may not > even need end up turning you off to the language all together. > > – > Regards, > > John W.