The program convert is part of the ImageMagick package, and you could use it as a substitute if the PerlMagick glue between the ImageMagick C library and Perl is not available, but you will have to change your scripts to use system() calls to the convert program (possibly as /home/myname/lib/Convert/convert and pass the correct commandline parameters.

Installing your own PerlMagick library is possible in theory but hard in practice if you didn't compile the Perl to use it yourself.

To get PerlMagick working, you need to download the ImageMagick package, compile it with the same C compiler used to compile the Perl on your webhosting server. Then also use that C compiler to compile the PerlMagick package Image::Magick. After that, upload all relevant binary files to your webhost into the right directories, which will also need some experimentation and still carries the potential for failure, depending on the OS used as server OS.

If you don't trust your webhosting service, ask them to provide the output of the test suite of PerlMagick (make test during the installation of PerlMagick).

In reply to Re: ImageMagick on the webhost by Corion
in thread ImageMagick on the webhost by Anonymous Monk

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