ImageMagick / RMagick - Can't install RMagick 2.13.1. Can't find Magick-config

Question

I used a script to install ImageMagick http://github.com/masterkain/ImageMagick-sl

After a while, I got ImageMagick installed.

Then I ran sudo gem install rmagick and got

Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
ERROR:  Error installing rmagick:
ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p0/bin/ruby extconf.rb
checking for Ruby version >= 1.8.5... yes
checking for gcc... yes
checking for Magick-config... no
Can't install RMagick 2.13.1. Can't find Magick-config in...

I'm working in OSX Snow Leopard with Ruby 1.9.2 and Rails 3. Any ideas?

Possible duplicate of [rmagick gem install "Can't find Magick-config"](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5201689/rmagick-gem-install-cant-find-magick-config) — Amir Ali Akbari, Apr 25 '17 at 08:45

eaykin · Answer 1 · 2012-12-11T19:10:26.430

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I was getting the same error and it got resolved after installing the libmagick9-dev library on ubuntu 11.

Update (Thanks to the commenters - Dec. 2012)

$ sudo apt-get install libmagickwand-dev or $ sudo apt-get install graphicsmagick-libmagick-dev-compat for ubuntu 12

$ sudo apt-get install libmagickwand-dev or $ sudo apt-get install libmagick9-dev for ubuntu 11 or below.

$ yum install ImageMagick-devel for centos

$ brew install imagemagick for Mac OS (using Homebrew)

edited Dec 11 '12 at 19:10

answered Nov 14 '10 at 15:35

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This fixed this same issue for me on Ubuntu 11.04. – Jordan Brock Jul 28 '11 at 03:15
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`sudo apt-get install libmagick9-dev` fixed for me on Ubuntu 11.10 – Kleber S. Mar 08 '12 at 11:34
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sudo apt-get install graphicsmagick-libmagick-dev-compat fixed it for me on Ubuntu 12.04 – oalders May 09 '12 at 04:10
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On Centos I used `yum install ImageMagick-devel` – elif Jul 11 '12 at 12:30
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Ubuntu 12... `sudo apt-get install graphicsmagick-libmagick-dev-compat` worked for me. – jmervine Oct 02 '12 at 03:40
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for Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS [precise], Package libmagick9-dev is not available. but libmagickwand-dev fixed the problem. – AMIC MING Nov 09 '12 at 00:26
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`sudo apt-get install libmagickwand-dev` fixed my issue on Ubuntu 12.10 – wintondeshong Dec 17 '12 at 15:23
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I have a clean Ubuntu 12.04 box. `libmagickwand-dev` worked. `graphicsmagick-libmagick-dev-compat` did not. It complained about a missing Magickwand.h, and I had to purge it. As a side note, don't try to install both. – geowa4 Jan 08 '13 at 18:04
Actually for my case I need both – Pencilcheck May 16 '13 at 06:43
`cd /usr/ports/graphics/ruby-rmagick && make install clean` for FreeBSD (or the according package). – scones Aug 06 '13 at 07:31
Look at this answer if it still doesn't work. You will need to add a source in order for dependencies to install http://stackoverflow.com/a/18474776/1612469 – Aleks May 28 '14 at 11:36
How do I get the header files NOT using yum? – mehulkar Dec 08 '14 at 20:28

score 55 · Answer 2 · edited Jan 20 '13 at 19:08

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you need the imagemagick libraries under ubuntu

$ sudo apt-get install libmagickwand-dev

it contains all missing libraires

then run bundle install command

edited Jan 20 '13 at 19:08

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answered Oct 20 '11 at 02:19

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score 25 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 26 '11 at 02:39

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I believe you need the Imagemagick libraries.

If you are using Homebrew (which I'd highly recommend), simply do

$ brew install imagemagick

Then rerun bundle install

answered Jan 26 '11 at 02:39

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this did it for me. thank you thank you, id been trying various ways for hours – 29er May 15 '12 at 02:31
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Did not fixed for me. Installation lacks: checking for InitializeMagick() in -lMagickCore... no; -lMagick... no; -lMagick++... no – sadfuzzy Dec 18 '12 at 00:01
Sadfuzzy I have the same problem, find a solution? – alt Dec 25 '12 at 09:53
sadfuzzy and Jackson Gariety, same problem here too. Any solution? – sincospi Dec 26 '12 at 20:20
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@sincospi RMagick expects for Homebrew to provide certain symlinks which don't exist. You can run [this gist](https://gist.github.com/4583529) to create the symlinks specific to your ImageMagick installation that are needed for RMagick to work. – fny Jan 21 '13 at 04:29

score 8 · Answer 4 · answered Aug 06 '12 at 13:13

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Mac OS Mountain Loin (using Homebrew)

download and install http://xquartz.macosforge.org/trac/wiki/X112.7.2
brew install imagemagick
gem install rmagick

answered Aug 06 '12 at 13:13

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score 3 · Answer 5 · answered Dec 14 '12 at 15:14

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sudo apt-get install libmagickwand-dev

works well for Ubuntu 12.10

This is assuming you have installed all other dependencies viz.

sudo apt-get install imagemagick ruby ruby-dev gem`

answered Dec 14 '12 at 15:14

ajayv

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How does this help someone using OSX Snow Leopard? – Martijn Pieters Dec 14 '12 at 15:33

score 2 · Answer 6 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:17

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For those who got

InitializeMagick() in -lMagickCore... no; -lMagick... no; -lMagick++... no;

this worked for me in OS X 10.8: https://github.com/maddox/magick-installer

From here: RVM + Ruby 1.9.2 + Rmagick + Lion = System Works, RVM Doesn't

edited May 23 '17 at 12:17

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answered Jan 20 '13 at 17:37

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score 2 · Answer 7 · edited Mar 12 '12 at 01:06

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On CentOS 5.7, I got it to work by first specifying PKG_CONFIG_PATH:

export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/src/ImageMagick-6.7.5-10/magick/

gem install rmagick

edited Mar 12 '12 at 01:06

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answered Mar 11 '12 at 14:31

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score 0 · Answer 8 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:17

Initially, I came around to installing rmagick because it seemed to be a dependency when I tried installing libgtk2.0-dev. I was trying to install that package, because the RGtk2.0 is a requirement for using R package called rattle.

Anyway, none of the above solutions worked for me in installing in my Ubuntu 12.04. Even running sudo apt-get update first didn't seem to help, nor this related posting: Installing rmagick on Ubuntu

I eventually found what works is to troubleshoot using sudo aptitude rather than apt-get. https://askubuntu.com/questions/223237/unable-to-correct-problems-you-have-held-broken-packages

I recommend the technique of using aptitude to work through the package installation issue.

score 0 · Answer 9 · answered Oct 27 '13 at 18:59

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On Mac Os X, check if /opt/local/bin is in your PATH. If not:

export PATH=/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:$PATH
sudo gem install rmagick

This worked for me!

answered Oct 27 '13 at 18:59

franksprings

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+1 This was exactly what I needed. I thought if you had MacPorts installed this was already supposed to be in there though... – andrew.cuthbert Nov 11 '13 at 06:17

score 0 · Answer 10 · answered Dec 15 '16 at 21:44

I had an issue installing Rmagick gem version 2.13.2 on Debian Jessie. After fighting with the packages in the other answers, I upgraded the version of the Rmagick gem from 2.13.2 to the latest (2.16.0 at time of writing). This installed successfully.

bundle update rmagick

score 0 · Answer 11 · answered Aug 18 '17 at 21:44

If you tried all solutions, of all posts of whole Internet, have installed and reinstalled many times all indicated packages in all Linux or Mac distributions/versions (even in Windows) and it still not working, close your terminal and open it again. Some times, even if your reload all shell environment, only after I reopen the terminal the bundle install was successfully completed.

score 0 · Answer 12 · answered Feb 27 '20 at 14:46

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After several days of searching, my problema was related to some missing libraries, and the one that get the gem installed was this one:

brew install pkg-config

after this I did my bundle install again and it worked.

answered Feb 27 '20 at 14:46

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