2009
12.11

Installing Gruff & RMagick on Linux

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This posts skims through the installation of Gruff & RMagick on a fedora based linux system.

Gruff has a dependency on rmagick, which in-turn is dependent on ImageMagick.

RMagick is a little tricky to install. Plain “gem install rmagick” won’t do the job.
The following are the steps to install (abstracted from https://saltalert.wordpress.com/2006/06/30/rmagick-installation-on-linux/)

  1. Install ImageMagick
    • Download the source from http://www.imagemagick.net/download/ImageMagick-6.2.8-1.tar.gz
    • gunzip -c ImageMagick-6.5.8-4.tar.gz | tar xvf -
    • cd ImageMagick-6.5.8-4/
    • export LDFLAGS=”-L/usr/local/lib -Wl,-rpath,/usr/local/lib”
    • ./configure
    • make
    • make install
  2. Install RMagick
    • gem install rmagick
  3. Install Gruff
    • gem install gruff

Hope, it works clean and simple.

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