Image::Magick is gone from Perl CPAN - where is it?

Question

I can't find the Perl module Image::Magick anywhere. It is gone from CPAN.

• What happened to it?
• Where can I get it?
• Is there a problem with CPAN, or with the module?

Answer 1

My guess is that it's an indexing error on MetaCPAN. - this is wrong, see my update below

You can see various versions of the distribution (which seems to have been renamed from PerlMagick to Image::Magick in 2021) on CPAN here.

Update: The MetaCPAN advice on missing modules suggests looking to see if the module is in 02packages.details.txt - which it isn't. So the next step is to contact the author to see if they know anything. Maybe start by raising a ticket in RT.

Update 2: I started a conversation about this on the Perl Community FB group, which led to a discussion on #p5p on IRC. We seem to be reaching a consensus that it was some kind of PAUSE error (probably on the upload of the most recent version).

14:33 < rjbs> This sounds like some kind of nasty transactionality failure

Update 3: Another release seems to have fixed the problem. It's there now:

• https://metacpan.org/release/JCRISTY/Image-Magick-7.1.1-20

Answer 2

Where can I get it?

On Linux you can install from source, i.e. from GitHub like this:

$ ./configure --with-perl=/home/hakon/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.38.0/bin/perl --prefix=/opt/image-magick
$ make
$ sudo make install

Answer 3

If in Win11 you have the option to run Perl in WSL (the Ubuntu or perhaps Debian variant) you can still install it with sudo apt install libimage-magick-perl there.

Answer 4

Old versions can be found on the BackPAN. I had to use the Wayback Machine to find the author but at least the distributions were saved!

Answer 5

It was originally released in the PerlMagick distribution, which was then renamed to Image-Magick. Recent uploads haven't included a metadata file (META.yml or META.json) which is why PAUSE hasn't included it in the CPAN Index. I've reported this and it will apparently be fixed soon.

UPDATE 2023-10-11

The indexing issue has now been fixed. From a quick play with the latest release, it has a number of build issues, so if someone would like to work out what needs fixing on that front and add github issues, I'm sure that would be appreciated.