# Rmagick on Mac

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rmagick-on-mac/142939>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [July 13, 2008, 8:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rmagick-on-mac/142939 "2008-07-13T20:04:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![vinnie](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/71e660/32.png) [@vinnie](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/vinnie)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2008, 8:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rmagick-on-mac/142939/1 "2008-07-13T20:04:24Z")

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I’m thinking of installing rmagick on my Mac. From what I’ve read, I’ll  
need to install X11 for rmagick to display images. I’d prefer to NOT  
have to do this, so if I am not _displaying_ an image with rmagick, and  
therefore not _needing_ X11 to do so, can I run rmagick without  
installing X11 on the Mac? i.e., if I simply want to process an image  
file and save it to disk without every displaying or viewing it?

Mac OS X 10.5.4, ruby 1.8.6 (2008-03-03 patchlevel 114)

tia

vince

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**Author:** ![vinnie](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/71e660/32.png) [@vinnie](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/vinnie)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2008, 8:18pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rmagick-on-mac/142939/2 "2008-07-13T20:18:57Z")

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On 13 Jul 2008, at 19:00, Vince A. wrote:

> I’m thinking of installing rmagick on my Mac. From what I’ve read,  
> I’ll

Isn’t X11 installed by default with leopard ?

Fred

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**Author:** ![vinnie](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/71e660/32.png) [@vinnie](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/vinnie)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2008, 2:53am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rmagick-on-mac/142939/3 "2008-07-14T02:53:59Z")

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Frederick C. wrote:

> On 13 Jul 2008, at 19:00, Vince A. wrote:
> 
> > I’m thinking of installing rmagick on my Mac. From what I’ve read,  
> > I’ll
> 
> Isn’t X11 installed by default with leopard ?
> 
> Fred

If it is, I’m sure I did a custom install and chose not to install it…  
there was nothing I was using that required it. But, I’d be surprised if  
it is  
part of the standard install, since most people wouldn’t ever need it.

vince