To get the latest and greatest version of ImageMagick, you need to compile from source rather than using yum to update it. Don’t worry, it’s easy.
Run these steps on your server:
If you are not root,
sudo su –
Uninstall old ImageMagick
yum remove ImageMagick
Get new ImageMagick sources
wget ftp://ftp.imagemagick.org/pub/ImageMagick/ImageMagick.tar.gz
Untar
tar -zxvf ImageMagick*.tar.gz cd ImageMagick*
configure and make
./configure make
Install
make install
Test ImageMagick (shouldn’t report an error)
convert logo: logo.gif
#If you get an error Message
convert: error while loading shared libraries: libMagick.so.10: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory …. Follow these steps,
cd /usr/bin/ mv convert convert.old ln -nfs /usr/local/bin/convert convert
# fix problem with rmagick not finding ImageMagick libraries
echo /usr/local/lib >> /etc/ld.so.conf.d/ImageMagick.conf ldconfig
# update rmagick
gem install rmagick
Finally, test rmagick
ruby -rrubygems -e “require ‘RMagick’; puts Magick::Long_version;”
