ImageMagick new ver install

[carperman]

Hello, i have just installed ImageMagick via whm and all seemed to go ok, will test later.

The version installed was 4.2.9-3.i386.rpm, however from the main ImageMagick ftp mirror it reports the latest version as ImageMagick-5.4.5-1.i386.rpm for redhat 6.2.

Is it advisable to to upgrade to this later version?

 

[carperman]

Hello, ok i found out i need to install ver 5.** of ImageMagick to get a script to work.

I Dl latest version 5.** for RH 6.2 and did rpm ugrade, needed to to install freetype 2.** rpm, and bzip22-1.0.0-1.i386.rpm.

freetype went ok but bzip failed with errors

[email protected] [/tmp/install]# rpm -ivh bzip2-1.0.0-1.i386.rpm
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
file /usr/bin/bzip2 from install of bzip2-1.0.0-1 conflicts with file from package bzip2-0.9.5d-2
file /usr/bin/bzip2recover from install of bzip2-1.0.0-1 conflicts with file from package bzip2-0.9.5d-2
file /usr/man/man1/bunzip2.1.gz from install of bzip2-1.0.0-1 conflicts with file from package bzip2-0.9.5d-2
file /usr/man/man1/bzcat.1.gz from install of bzip2-1.0.0-1 conflicts with file from package bzip2-0.9.5d-2
file /usr/man/man1/bzip2.1.gz from install of bzip2-1.0.0-1 conflicts with file from package bzip2-0.9.5d-2
[email protected] [/tmp/install]# rpm -Uvh bzip2-1.0.0-1.i386.rpm
error: failed dependencies:
libbz2.so.0 is needed by passwd-0.64.1-1
libbz2.so.0 is needed by rpm-4.0.2-6x
libbz2.so.0 is needed by rpm-build-4.0.2-6x
libbz2.so.0 is needed by ucd-snmp-4.2.3-1.6.x.3
libbz2.so.0 is needed by ucd-snmp-utils-4.2.3-1.6.x.3
libbz2.so.0 is needed by ImageMagick-4.2.9-3


i had installed ImageMagick-4.2.9-3.i386.rpm via whm but when i try rpm -e ImageMagick-4.2.9-3.i386.rpm it says that it has not been installed.


any ideas

 

[feanor]

Well, you can try the death-defying

rpm -Uvh RPM_NAME_HERE.rpm --nodeps --force

Which will force the installation or upgrade regardless of dependencies. On a RH 6.2 box this is sometimes one of the only possibly routes for getting things updates like you require.

But it can cause more harm than good, just be careful.

 

[carperman]

last resort.

Have found some stuf about perlmagick needing to be installed, not using it with perl script but might help.