On Wed, 22 Sep 2004, Mark Wheeler wrote: > There are instructions for installing ImageMagic on the ImageMagick site.
Swell. As I was saying though, if you install Fink, you can take advantage of the fact that someone already automated all of this for you. But hey, some people like re-inventing wheels... :-) > Should I just follow the Unix instructions? If you really want to prove to yourself how much rounder your wheel will be, then yes, use the Unix instructions. > 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? ImageMagick is a big, complex package to start with, but it can also do a huge number of things, and there are quite a lot of people using it. You may be able to do just fine with a simpler library > Just had a thought. Is installing a C library a different process then > installing a perl module? Lots of Perl modules are written partly in C (or XS, whatever), so in some ways there isn't much of a difference. But more broadly, yeah, a pure C library is often installed in ways similar to Perl libraries. Really though, I'm not kidding, don't bother with this. It Hurts. Download Fink from <http://fink.sf.net/>. Install it. Follow the instructions for setting it up. Launch a new shell, and just type $ sudo apt-get install imagemagick If a binary is available -- I seem to remember that it is -- then Fink will download both Imagemagick and any libraries it depends on, and will install everything for you. If the binary isn't available, skip apt-get & build it from source: $ sudo fink -y install imagemagick At that point, all you have to do is hook Perl up to it by installing the Image::Magick CPAN module. Again, Fink will help you here. $ sudo apt-get install perlmagick-pm581 or, once more, build from source, with $ sudo fink -y install perlmagick-pm581 Plant, water, watch it grow, harvest when ripe. You can do this all by hand, but there's not much point in doing so. -- Chris Devers
