Reinventar » Blog http://reinventar.com Tue, 05 Apr 2011 13:25:10 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 Install Imagemagick on Ubuntu with delegates http://reinventar.com/2011/04/05/install-imagemagick-on-ubuntu-with-delegates/ http://reinventar.com/2011/04/05/install-imagemagick-on-ubuntu-with-delegates/#comments Tue, 05 Apr 2011 13:18:51 +0000 Pedro Sousa http://reinventar.com/?p=1083 Installing imagemagick on Ubuntu for use with your Rails application (if you user Paperclip for example) should be pretty easy using apt-get:

sudo apt-get install libmagickwand-dev
sudo apt-get install imagemagick librmagick-ruby1.8 librmagick-ruby-doc libfreetype6-dev xml-core -y

so now it’s done.
Unfortunately during one of my instalations, I ran into a problem where the delegate libraries for jpg, png, etc where not being picked up. ex:

convert -list configure

The solution for this is to install Imagemagick by hand, ex:

mkdir source
cd source
wget ftp://ftp.imagemagick.org/pub/ImageMagick/ImageMagick.tar.gz
tar xvfz ImageMagick.tar.gz
cd ImageMagick-6.6.5-8
./configure --disable-shared
make
sudo make install

and now you should be able to use the identify or the convert command successfully on your image files.

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Here’s the Think Orange homepage for April 1st which reflected a drastic change of business direction:

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If you’re a illustrator start a blog, share a drawing everyday, dribbble, give advice or create a web comic.

If you’re a photographer share photos on a photo blog, give some freebies, if you have time, sell some photos at Stock Photo websites and create an online portfolio.

If you’re a programmer, build stuff, write tutorials, record screencasts, speak at conferences, attend events, share insights, techniques and code.

And so on…

There’s more ways to show your skills and talent that just sending out CV’s and waiting for a job to land. Be creative and don’t sit around.

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Get out of the couch, turn off the tv, don’t watch a show about some interesting imaginary life, this is your opportunity.

Instead, have some coffee or tea and work on something you wanted to do on a long time.

Go pick those ideas you have kept on a piece of napkin or in a paper-sheet in your drawer and build something tonight.
Don’t wait any longer, you’re going to be sleepy tomorrow but much happier.

Write, draw, design, program, build something tonight. Go!

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First, install some needed libraries with yum:

sudo yum install tcl-devel libpng-devel libjpeg-devel ghostscript-devel bzip2-devel freetype-devel libtiff-devel

Then create a directory and download the latest source.

mkdir sources
cd /sources
wget ftp://ftp.imagemagick.org/pub/ImageMagick/ImageMagick-6.6.7-0.tar.gz

Untar the compressed file and compile it using dark magic:

tar zxvf ImageMagick-6.6.7-0.tar.gz
cd ImageMagick-6.6.7-0
./configure --prefix=/usr/local --with-bzlib=yes --with-fontconfig=yes --with-freetype=yes --with-gslib=yes --with-gvc=yes --with-jpeg=yes --with-jp2=yes --with-png=yes --with-tiff=yes
make clean
make
sudo make install

grab a coffee while it’s doing it’s work and that’s it.

To test if it works run:

run identify -version

and it should confirm that it’s installed.

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First install some needed libraries for dev:

sudo yum -y install zlib-devel openssl-devel cpio expat-devel gettext-devel

Create a directory, switch to it and download the latest git source.

mkdir sources
cd /sources
wget http://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-1.6.6.tar.gz

Untar the compressed file, switch to the folder and compile it manually.

tar xvzf git-1.6.6.tar.gz
cd git-1.6.6
./configure
make
sudo make install

and that’s it. Now, something as simple as:

mkdir testgit
cd testgit
git init

should work and you just created your first local repository.

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