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Install Rmagick Gem in Ubuntu Painlessly

Install Rmagick gem in Ubuntu Painlessly

Prakash Poudel Sharma

Engineering Manager · Product Owner · Varicon

Feb 26, 2016·3 min read

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tl;dr for busy ones

sudo apt-get install graphicsmagick-libmagick-dev-compat
sudo apt-get install imagemagick
sudo apt-get install libmagickcore-dev
sudo apt-get install libmagickwand-dev
gem install rmagick

Let me guess why you are here!

You are about to install imagemagick gem in freshly setup laptop, and you try simple gem install imagemagick and currently your screen looks like this:

$ gem install imagemagick
Building native extensions. This could take a while...
ERROR: Error installing rmagick:
ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
 
/home/untoldstory/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.1.1/bin/ruby -r ./siteconf20160226-5081-j6qfa7.rb extconf.rb
checking for gcc... yes
checking for Magick-config... no
checking for pkg-config... yes
Package MagickCore was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `MagickCore.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'MagickCore' found
checking for outdated ImageMagick version (<= 6.4.9)... *** extconf.rb failed ***
Could not create Makefile due to some reason, probably lack of necessary
libraries
and/or headers.  Check the mkmf.log file for more details.  You may
need configuration options.
 
Provided configuration options:
	--with-opt-dir
	--without-opt-dir
	--with-opt-include
	--without-opt-include=${opt-dir}/include
	--with-opt-lib
	--without-opt-lib=${opt-dir}/lib
	--with-make-prog
	--without-make-prog
	--srcdir=.
	--curdir
	--ruby=/home/untoldstory/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.1.1/bin/ruby
 
extconf failed, exit code 1
 
Gem files will remain installed in /home/untoldstory/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.1/gems/rmagick-2.15.4 for inspection.
Results logged to /home/untoldstory/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.1/extensions/x86_64-linux/2.1.0/rmagick-2.15.4/gem_make.out

what is the solution?

You need to install some dependencies before you can proceed with installation of this gem.

Install imagemagick library

sudo apt-get install graphicsmagick-libmagick-dev-compat
sudo apt-get install imagemagick

Install some more dependencies

After installing imagemagick if you try installing imagemagick gem you will see error, that looks like this:

$ gem install rmagick
Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
ERROR:  Error installing rmagick:
	ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
 
    /home/untoldstory/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.1.1/bin/ruby -r ./siteconf20160226-22127-tgz3iy.rb extconf.rb
checking for gcc... yes
checking for Magick-config... yes
checking for outdated ImageMagick version (<= 6.4.9)... no
checking for Ruby version >= 1.8.5... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for wand/MagickWand.h... no
 
Can't install RMagick 2.15.4. Can't find MagickWand.h.
*** extconf.rb failed ***
Could not create Makefile due to some reason, probably lack of necessary
libraries and/or headers.  Check the mkmf.log file for more de
tails.  You may
need configuration options.
 
Provided configuration options:
	--with-opt-dir
	--without-opt-dir
	--with-opt-include
	--without-opt-include=${opt-dir}/include
	--with-opt-lib
	--without-opt-lib=${opt-dir}/lib
	--with-make-prog
	--without-make-prog
	--srcdir=.
	--curdir
	--ruby=/home/untoldstory/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.1.1/bin/ruby
 
extconf failed, exit code 1
 
Gem files will remain installed in /home/untoldstory/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.1/gems/rmagick-2.15.4 for inspection.
Results logged to /home/untoldstory/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.1/extensions/x86_64-linux/2.1.0/rmagick-2.15.4/gem_make.out

To solve this, you will need to install some more libraries.

sudo apt-get install libmagickcore-dev
sudo apt-get install libmagickwand-dev