Anyone ever install ImageMagick?
 

Im lost :321GFY

I have no idea where to start, if you can give me a couple tips or even a site that has the info (that actually make sense to non technical type) hook me up!

www.imagemagick.org , its usually pretty simple for linux / freebsd distros.

Who are you hosting with? Your host should be able to help you out a bit, and maybe even install it for you.

My host installs all that script shit for me. They're either going out of their way to make a customer happy, or they're afraid I'll delete the hard drive. :1orglaugh

its very resource intensive

Depends on what you are doing, its not bad in most cases.

Andy

What he said. Get your host to install that shit.

your host might already have it installed - but if not:

howto for virtual account (yes you can do that):
http://www.photopost.com/magicknoroot-php.html

re's

Bucho

If you are on FreeBSD, easiest way to do it would be using ports.

goto /usr/ports/graphics/ImageMagick (notice to caps) then type makeinstall

that would download&install fully working copy of it.

if the version is old you might want to update your ports collection with cvs-up

I hope this helps. :)

If it's your own dedicated you really shouldn't be trying to admin it if you can't even install a fairly simple module. As has been suggested ask your host and if you haven't got one get a managed solution.

login as root

go to imagemagick.org, pick the mirror closest to your server, login to it's ftp thru your box and download ImageMagick5.5.7-9.i386.tar.gz (or like this) to a folder on your box

go out of ncftp (better to use it for browsing ftp sites) type 'tar -xzf ImageMagick5.5.7-9.i386.tar.gz' or whatever filename it would be

tar will create a folder named ImageMagick5.5.7-9 or like this. cd into in and type './configure' then 'make' and finally 'make install'

that's all. easy, isn't it?

We have it installed already on The DarkSide.

cd /usr/ports/graphics/ImageMagick
make
make install