rmagick installation problem

Question

I am trying to deploy my rails 3 app on DreamHost. When I do "bundle install", rmagick causes an error.

configure: error: Can't install RMagick. Can't find Magick-config or GraphicsMagick-config program.
RMagick configuration failed with status 1.

I checked ImageMagick version.

$ convert --version
Version: ImageMagick 6.3.7 11/16/10 Q16 http://www.imagemagick.org
Copyright: Copyright (C) 1999-2008 ImageMagick Studio LLC

And I checked rmagick version

$ ls -d /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rmagick*
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rmagick-1.15.14

As I don't care the version of rmagick, I changed the rmagick version to 1.15.14 in Gemfile. But still it gives the same error.

How do I fix this problem? Is it possible that I omit rmagick in Gemfile and add [require 'RMagick'] somewhere? If so, which file do I add it to?

Thanks.

Sam

Answer 1

Having ImageMagick is only half of the solution. You also need the development headers. Often this is called ImageMagick-devel or something along those lines and depends on your distribution.

Once you have your development version installed you will get the Magick-config program.

Answer 2

I was having the same problems, installing libmagickwand did the trick for me...

sudo apt-get install libmagickwand-dev

Answer 3

This works for me:

1. Install my own ImageMagick to my home folder: http://wiki.dreamhost.com/Image_Magick#Compiling_ImageMagick_on_your_DreamHost_account

2. Export relevant path: http://wiki.dreamhost.com/RMagick

Then $ bundle install