From: David Hughes <david@...>
Date: 2007-03-06T11:09:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Ok, Uncle on Rmagic

Thank you for this response.  I will study the URL and see if I can 
break this logjam.  Am anxious to get under the hood and learn.

drh

Tim Hunter wrote:
> David Hughes wrote:
>> I am a total newb in RoR.  But this community looks awesome.   Am really
>> looking forward to learning Ruby and its elements.
>> 
>> Having said that, the following is a really crummy problem. Am running
>> Fedora Core 6. Ruby installed fine.  Gem appears to have installed as
>> well.  Went to install the Ruby Asset manager and the following....
>> 
>> configure: error: Can't install RMagick. Can't find libMagick or one of
>> the dependent libraries.
>>                   Check the config.log file for more detailed
>> information.
>> 
>> 
>> I searched and know this is a known issue.  I've mucked around trying to
>> figure out how to get past the problem.  The libMagick .so files are
>> located in /usr/local/lib.  I yum'd the ImageMagick-devel installation
>> as was recommended. And a few other things.  And continue to get the
>> same error.
>> 
>> Help? I know this is a really simple problem, but am fresh into Ruby on
>> Rails and felt I should ask.  I will learn more and more as I get into,
>> but am asking for help on this.
>> 
>> tia
> Check this out: http://rmagick.rubyforge.org/install-faq.html#libmagick. 
> If that doesn't help. email rmagick AT rubyforge DOT org.
> 
> The Installing RMagick on Linux HOWTO is here: 
> http:/rmagick.rubyforge.org/install-linux.html.


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