[TYPO3-linux] Imagemagick 4.2.9 tar.gz install vs. up2date on RHEL

[Dimitri Tarassenko]

On 3/9/06, M. Stanley <superstan76 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> I'm wondering about how I should install IM... manually w/ 4.2.9 tarball or
> using the up2date package manager in RHEL (WS4)?
>
> Any downside to going the route of up2date? And if so, why is the older
> 4.2.9 tarball better? Also, is there anything special I need to do after
> installing IM as far as permissions or ownership are concerned?

The best way would be to get graphicsmagick here:

http://typo3.sunsite.dk/software/linux/graphicsmagick-1.1.6_i386-static-2.tar.gz

and use it instead of ImageMagick. The old 4.2.9 is not better, the
problem is ImageMagick kept changing their API so much over the time
it was very hard to follow, that's why 4.2.9 is considered the least
"quirky". GraphicsMagick does not have that problem.

RHEL4 comes with IM6, which is yet again different from IM5. You can
have both the IM installed through up2date and static IM 4.2.9 and
static GM outta the tarballs - you can even try tweaking various
settings in the installer to get IM6 to work properly in TYPO3. If you
succeed, let me know the config options - I found it easier to build a
static GraphicsMagick ;)

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Dimitri Tarassenko