# RMagick woes

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rmagick-woes/91835>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [April 12, 2007, 7:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rmagick-woes/91835 "2007-04-12T19:22:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![mr\_robot](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/67e7ee/32.png) [@mr\_robot](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mr_robot)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2007, 7:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rmagick-woes/91835/1 "2007-04-12T19:22:48Z")

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i’m having major problems with rmagic, when cropping. on my local  
machine it works fine. on dreamhost it kills my app.  
the specific error is:  
can’t convert Magick::GravityType into Integer

a lot of googling reveals that it may be due to an older version of  
rmagick installed on dreamhost.  
i try to install the gem and it fails with:  
configure: error: Can’t install RMagick. Can’t find Magick-config or  
GraphicsMagick-config program.  
RMagick configuration failed with status 1.

any ideas how to get around this?  
triedto install rmagick from source also died with me, saying it  
couldn’t find GraphicsMagick. but if i test GraphicsMagick from  
command line, it is found and works fine.

any ideas appreciated? anyone manage to get rmagick gem installed on  
dreamhost?

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**Author:** ![mr\_robot](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/67e7ee/32.png) [@mr\_robot](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mr_robot)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2007, 7:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rmagick-woes/91835/2 "2007-04-12T19:31:25Z")

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mr\_robot wrote:

> any ideas appreciated? anyone manage to get rmagick gem installed on  
> dreamhost?

[http://wiki.dreamhost.com/RMagick](http://wiki.dreamhost.com/RMagick)  
Last updated 21Mar2007.

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**Author:** ![mr\_robot](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/67e7ee/32.png) [@mr\_robot](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mr_robot)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2007, 6:37pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rmagick-woes/91835/3 "2007-04-17T18:37:53Z")

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yea. been through this many times. no luck.  
always dies at:  
gem install -i ~/gems rmagick

with:  
No package ‘ImageMagick’ found  
no  
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.  
RMagick configuration failed with status 1.