I emailed my system administrator and asked if he would install ImageMagick for me. I had talked to many people who said that when they asked their sys admins, they installed it for them. Mine said he would not. I asked if I could get ssh access to install it myself on my own account (ssh comes with the next level package with my hosting company). He replied and said that no I could not get ssh access and now that the software would not be installed on his system. I assume he means that if I were to install it myself, I would break some contract and he would uninstall it for me.
Now what could I do? Do any of you know of any binaries (for fbsd 4.7) that can be uploaded by ftp and will meet the requirements for my PerlMagick?
Sorry for stating the obvious, but if you can't get what you want at your current host, it's time to change hosts. Hosting services are a dime-a-dozen these days.