There are instructions for installing ImageMagic on the ImageMagick site. Should I just follow the Unix instructions? As well, it sounds like I need to install the C libraries first, then ImageMagick. Also, from what I gather, after I install the C libraries and ImageMagick, then I need to install PerlMagick, right?

It sounds, too, that things could go wrong in the installation. Is there a way to Uninstall the files and start over?

And finally, I guess, this is basically all I want to use the ImageMagick for:

Image resizing.
Image compression - jpg
Finding image DPI
Finding image size
Clean up image (sharpen, etc.)

That's pretty much it. This is why I'm looking at ImageMagick. Am I going in the right direction here, or is there something else (Imager?) that will do the same thing with less of an installation procedure?

Just had a thought. Is installing a C library a different process then installing a perl module?

Thanks again for your help,

Mark

On Sep 22, 2004, at 11:57 AM, Chris Devers wrote:

On Wed, 22 Sep 2004, Sherm Pendley wrote:

On Sep 22, 2004, at 2:11 PM, william ross wrote:

any chance at all of making it work you must first install fink

Nonsense. You must first install the C libraries you need. Fink is *one* way
to get them, not the only one.

It's certainly a very easy & painless way though:

  % sudo fink -y install imagemagick
  % sudo perl -MCPAN -e 'install Image::Magick'

This gets you 90% of the way there, at least.

The ability to do this by hand can obviously be valuable, but it can
hardly be easier :-)



--
Chris Devers




Reply via email to