# Problems installing Rmagick on Ubuntu **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [February 4, 2008, 9:47pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problems-installing-rmagick-on-ubuntu/128082 "2008-02-04T21:47:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![peter](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/278dde/32.png) [@peter](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/peter)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2008, 9:47pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problems-installing-rmagick-on-ubuntu/128082/1 "2008-02-04T21:47:15Z")
I want to install Rmagick on Ubuntu 7.10, but i am getting this error when running gem install rmagick: Can’t install RMagick 2.2.0. You must have ImageMagick 6.3.0 or later. (I installed imagemagick and libmagick9-dev prior to that) I installed rmagick through Synaptic, and it says that i have version 7:6.2.4.5.dfsg1-2ubuntu1 installed (by the way, what does the 7 mean?). What should i do to have the gem install correctly? ---
**Author:** ![peter](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/278dde/32.png) [@peter](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/peter)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2008, 10:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problems-installing-rmagick-on-ubuntu/128082/2 "2008-02-04T22:00:48Z")
On 2/4/08, Peter [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > mean?). What should i do to have the gem install correctly? > Is it possible you need to run ldconfig? Or add something to your > /etc/ld.so.conf ? – Greg D. [http://destiney.com/](http://destiney.com/) ---
**Author:** ![peter](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/278dde/32.png) [@peter](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/peter)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2008, 10:18pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problems-installing-rmagick-on-ubuntu/128082/3 "2008-02-04T22:18:03Z")
I know for 6.06 there is a libmagick-ruby library that needs to be installed as well. - Richard ---
**Author:** ![peter](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/278dde/32.png) [@peter](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/peter)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2008, 10:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problems-installing-rmagick-on-ubuntu/128082/4 "2008-02-04T22:41:53Z")
On Feb 4, 9:59 pm, “Greg D.” [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > I installed rmagick through Synaptic, and it says that i have version > > 7:6.2.4.5.dfsg1-2ubuntu1 installed (by the way, what does the 7 > > mean?). What should i do to have the gem install correctly? > > Is it possible you need to run ldconfig? Or add something to your > /etc/ld.so.conf ? > > – > Greg D.[http://destiney.com/](http://destiney.com/) I have no idea, should i? And if so: how? 🙂 I’m a newbie to Ubuntu… And I have libmagick-ruby and libmagick-ruby1.8 installed. ---
**Author:** ![peter](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/278dde/32.png) [@peter](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/peter)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2008, 1:50am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problems-installing-rmagick-on-ubuntu/128082/5 "2008-02-05T01:50:30Z")
Peter wrote: > I want to install Rmagick on Ubuntu 7.10, but i am getting this error > when running gem install rmagick: > > Can’t install RMagick 2.2.0. You must have ImageMagick 6.3.0 or later. > > (I installed imagemagick and libmagick9-dev prior to that) > > I installed rmagick through Synaptic, and it says that i have version > 7:6.2.4.5.dfsg1-2ubuntu1 installed (by the way, what does the 7 > mean?). What should i do to have the gem install correctly? RMagick 2.2.0 is for ImageMagick 6.3.0 or later. For older versions of ImageMagick, use RMagick 1.15.12: gem install rmagick -v 1.15.12 See [http://rmagick.rubyforge.org/rmagick2.html](http://rmagick.rubyforge.org/rmagick2.html). ---
**Author:** ![peter](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/278dde/32.png) [@peter](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/peter)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2008, 8:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problems-installing-rmagick-on-ubuntu/128082/6 "2008-02-07T20:31:14Z")
This should do the trick. sudo apt-get install ruby rubygems irb ri rdoc ruby1.8-dev build- essential imagemagick libmagick9 libmagick9-dev sudo gem install rmagick -v=1.15.10 richard@richard-desktop:~$ irb irb(main):001:0\> require ‘rubygems’ =\> true irb(main):002:0\> require ‘RMagick’ =\> true irb(main):003:0\> Magick::CenterGravity =\> CenterGravity=5 irb(main):004:0\> On Feb 5, 8:24 am, “removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid” [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) ---
**Author:** ![peter](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/278dde/32.png) [@peter](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/peter)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2008, 5:25pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problems-installing-rmagick-on-ubuntu/128082/7 "2008-02-05T17:25:01Z")
Could someone ‘sew up’ this topic and possibly list what one must do to install RMagick upon a Ubuntu 7.10 configuration? I would be most grateful as I too, am like many who have failed at this endeavor. Thank you, Kathleen On Feb 4, 6:50 pm, Tim H. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) ---
**Author:** ![peter](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/278dde/32.png) [@peter](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/peter)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2008, 11:07am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problems-installing-rmagick-on-ubuntu/128082/8 "2008-02-08T11:07:08Z")
Hi Thanks, It is very helpful for me. Shrikant