in reply to ImageMagick not installing

ppm needs a .ppd file to install. You don't appear to have a valid one. There are two ways to use ppm. To automatically download and install you just do this: 

ppm install Image-Magick

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I have just tested this and it if working fine. You can run into issues with firewalls and proxies - see the docs.

The other alternative is to download the zip file from active state, unzip it and then use the command you were trying as you should now have a valid ppd.

If you are using a tarball (seems you may be) then do a google for your error - there is *plenty* of discussion about it. The instructions for doing the install are on the imagemagick site here http://www.imagemagick.org/www/perl.html

cheers

tachyon

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Re: Re: ImageMagick not installing
by Qitan (Novice) on Dec 30, 2002 at 15:04 UTC
    Image-Magick does not appear to be available from ActiveState. I tried what you said. I actually deleted the Image-Magick.ppd that came with the ImageMagick install and tried: ppm install Image-Magick. It came back saying that it couldn't find it.
    What repository do you have setup that has Image-Magick?
    Thanks,
    Butch
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      Which version of perl do you have?

      The version you can get from imagemagick.org is for Perl5.8 (they haven't updated the installer to reflect this -- i've emailed them about it)

      http://ppm.ActiveState.com/cgibin/PPM/ppmserver.pl?urn:/PPMServer has a Image-Magick-5.26. It is a perl-5.6x compatible repository. I'm should be in your list.

      Here are some other 5.6 repositories (including mine) 

      http://crazyinsomniac.perlmonk.org/perl/ppm/
http://ppd.develop-help.com/ppd/
http://www.roth.net/perl/packages/
http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/~ach/ptk/ppm/
http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppmpackages/
http://dada.perl.it/PPM
http://jenda.krynicky.cz/perl
http://rto.dk/packages/
http://openinteract.sourceforge.net/ppmpackages/
http://ppm.gingerall.cz
http://www.epn.ml.org/~spurkis/Agent/repository 
http://homepage.eircom.net/~jmcnamara/perl

http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/cgi-bin/ppmserver?urn:/PPMServer

FOR PERL5.8, TRY

http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/cgi-bin/ppmserver?urn:/PPMServer58
http://crazyinsomniac.perlmonk.org/perl/ppm/5.8/

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      MJD says you can't just make shit up and expect the computer to know what you mean, retardo!
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        I've just upgraded to 5.8.0 and I have the .ppd from imagemagick.org but, that is the one that is giving me the error when I try to install. It's very strange, I'll bet that the Perl Magick files need to be in a different directory than the one it was installed to (but that is just a guess).
        Thanks,
        Butch
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