installing RMagick gem with fink

August 16th, 2007
Posted by David Lowenfels
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NOTE; this article is written for the most current rmagick-1.15.9 There are lots of articles about how to install ImageMagick and the RMagick gem, but none of them really cut to the chase in my opinion. Here is how to do it in no time at all, using fink.

#install imagemagick (and save some time by apt-getting ghostscript binaries)
sudo apt-get install ghostscript
sudo fink install imagemagick imagemagick10-dev

#set up stuff for rmagick compilation
export LIBRARY_PATH='/sw/lib'

# the location of this directory might be different if you didn't install rubygems with fink.
cd /sw/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rmagick-1.15.9
sudo chmod a+x configure
sudo ./configure --prefix=/sw    #point to fink installation
sudo gem install rmagick
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