How do I enable support for compressed GIFs in Imagemagick ?

I have Imagemagick that came with RH73 that doesn't support GIFs, 

Version: @(#)ImageMagick 5.4.3 03/05/02 Q:16 http://www.imagemagick.org
Copyright: Copyright (C) 2002 ImageMagick Studio LLC

looking at IM's home page it says:

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Note that since Unisys claims a patent on the LZW algorithm (expiring
world-wide as of June 2004) used by GIF, ImageMagick binary distributions do
not include support for the LZW algorithm so GIF files are written
uncompressed. Users are recommended to use the PNG or JPEG formats instead,
and should consult the Unisys LZW web page before enabling LZW support. 
---

do I need to download IM source, and, find GD libaries with GIF supoort,
and, compile, or, is there an easier path ? like, to retrofit gd/gif support
to what I have ?

I came across an aussie .com.au server (that right now I can't recall the
name) that had the gd/gif files, except, I coulkdn't figure out what to do
with them

Voytek
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