hullo, Attempting a fresh installaiton of Image::Magick from cpan.

retrieve PerlMagick-6.20 - no problem
perl Makefile.PL
Checking if your kit is complete...
Looks good
Note (probably harmless): No library found for -llcms
Writing Makefile for Image::Magick
This seems OK to me

make
cp Magick.pm blib/lib/Image/Magick.pm
AutoSplitting blib/lib/Image/Magick.pm
(blib/lib/auto/Image/Magick)
...
gcc -c -I../ -I.. -I/usr/include/freetype2 ...
Magick.xs:63:24: magick/api.h: No such file or directory

Well that's fatal.

some Google searching leads to an impression that one needs to install from source, as in a full ImageMagick install from source.

Is there a better way?

In reply to Image::Magick install failure - no magick/api.h by mikeraz

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