# Rmagick install fail

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rmagick-install-fail/188110>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [May 5, 2010, 10:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rmagick-install-fail/188110 "2010-05-05T22:53:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![Rajinder\_Y](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/91b2a8/32.png) [@Rajinder\_Y](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Rajinder_Y)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2010, 10:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rmagick-install-fail/188110/1 "2010-05-05T22:53:07Z")

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I can’t seem to install rmagic on ubuntu 9.10 using ruby 1.9, I have  
imagemagick installed but i keep seeing the following error

yadav@VMLux:$ sudo gem install rmagick  
Building native extensions. This could take a while…  
ERROR: Error installing rmagick:  
ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

/usr/local/bin/ruby extconf.rb  
checking for Ruby version \>= 1.8.5… yes  
checking for gcc… yes  
checking for Magick-config… no  
Can’t install RMagick 2.13.1. Can’t find Magick-config in  
/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin

\*\*\* extconf.rb failed \*\*\*  
Could not create Makefile due to some reason, probably lack of  
necessary libraries and/or headers. Check the mkmf.log file for more  
details. You may need configuration options.

Provided configuration options:  
–with-opt-dir  
–without-opt-dir  
–with-opt-include  
–without-opt-include=${opt-dir}/include  
–with-opt-lib  
–without-opt-lib=${opt-dir}/lib  
–with-make-prog  
–without-make-prog  
–srcdir=.  
–curdir  
–ruby=/usr/local/bin/ruby

Gem files will remain installed in  
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/rmagick-2.13.1 for inspection.  
Results logged to  
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/rmagick-2.13.1/ext/RMagick/gem\_make.out

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**Author:** ![Rajinder\_Y](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/91b2a8/32.png) [@Rajinder\_Y](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Rajinder_Y)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2010, 11:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rmagick-install-fail/188110/2 "2010-05-05T23:10:40Z")

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On May 5, 5:52 pm, Rajinder Y. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> I can’t seem to install rmagic on ubuntu 9.10 using ruby 1.9, I have  
> imagemagick installed but i keep seeing the following error

RMagick needs development headers of ImageMagick.

Please ready RMagick installation instructions:

[http://rmagick.rubyforge.org/install-faq.html](http://rmagick.rubyforge.org/install-faq.html)

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**Author:** ![Rajinder\_Y](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/91b2a8/32.png) [@Rajinder\_Y](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Rajinder_Y)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2010, 11:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rmagick-install-fail/188110/3 "2010-05-05T23:13:01Z")

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[http://www.semanticpool.de/debian-rmagick-install-cant-find-magick-config/](http://www.semanticpool.de/debian-rmagick-install-cant-find-magick-config/)

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**Author:** ![Rajinder\_Y](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/91b2a8/32.png) [@Rajinder\_Y](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Rajinder_Y)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2010, 11:59pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rmagick-install-fail/188110/4 "2010-05-05T23:59:15Z")

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On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 5:10 PM, Luis L. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)  
wrote:

> –  
> Luis L.

Thanks that did it!