# RMagick LoadError

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rmagick-loaderror/163821>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [March 25, 2009, 7:27am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rmagick-loaderror/163821 "2009-03-25T07:27:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![k560](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/838e76/32.png) [@k560](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/k560)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2009, 7:27am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rmagick-loaderror/163821/1 "2009-03-25T07:27:59Z")

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I installed RMagick 2.9.1 and tried to test RMagick code below.  
irb -rubygems -r RMagick  
But I got an error like below.

/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rmagick-2.9.1/lib/RMagick2.so:  
libMagickCore.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or  
directory -  
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rmagick-2.9.1/lib/RMagick2.so  
(LoadError)  
from  
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom\_require.rb:36:in  
`require' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rmagick-2.9.1/lib/RMagick.rb:11 from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `gem\_original\_require’  
from  
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom\_require.rb:36:in  
`require' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/init.rb:252:in `load\_modules’  
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/init.rb:250:in `each' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/init.rb:250:in `load\_modules’  
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/init.rb:21:in `setup' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/irb.rb:54:in `start’  
from /usr/local/bin/irb:13

I searched and referred  
[http://rmagick.rubyforge.org/install-faq.html#loaderror](http://rmagick.rubyforge.org/install-faq.html#loaderror)  
So I inserted code below to “.bash\_profile”  
export LD\_LIBRARY\_PATH=/usr/local/lib

But still same error occur ande doesn’t work.  
Any advise?