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Li Ning Xuan
Li Ning Xuan

Reputation: 33

can't install rmagick on mac lion

when I try to install rmagick it keep coming up the error:

error: http://rubygems.org/does not appear to be a repository error: could not find gem rmagick locally or in a repository

another question is how can I check has rmagick installed or not I try rmagick -v it say command not found.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 77

Answers (2)

j_mcnally
j_mcnally

Reputation: 6958

Don't do it!

We used rmagick far too long. The project is unmaintained, switch to MiniMagick before it is too late.

The big issue here, is that Rmagick isn't compatible with newer ImageMagick.

Update

I spoke too soon. They found someone to take it over, but look at their GitHub repo. 90% of the files haven't been touched in nearly five years.

I have it installed on my machine.

The steps I took were:

brew install ImageMagick
gem install rmagick

However that was nearly a year ago, a colleague couldn't get it working last week with updated ImageMagick, now I see on GitHub they may have fixed his issue, so best of luck. I also remember fumbling around with using a non LLVM version of GCC to compile it. But I feel like that is out of the scope of this question.

Upvotes: 0

Stephan
Stephan

Reputation: 185

Barring "Don't Do It!" (sound advice if you can take it) you'll need to resort to Homebrew to install rmagick.

Upvotes: 1

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