Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Is there any way possible to install ImageMagick onto a webserver that you don't own without having root access? Some mods you can install in /lib/, any hack for this?

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Re: Image magick installation
by Anonymous Monk on Nov 20, 2004 at 02:47 UTC
    I ask this because my webhost said it's installed and use ImageMagick says it doesn't exist and when I use.. use "/usr/bin/convert" I get the same error. He seemed unsure of the location of the package but usr/bin/convert doesn't look right. Any suggestions on where it's installed?
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      which gives you the location of an executable:

      $ which convert
/usr/bin/convert

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      You can choose where ImageMagick gets installed by passing the option --prefix= to the configure script. This is documented in the install* files.

      For how to install PerlMagick in a private directory, see the CPAN FAQ.

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      Sounds like time to move to a more competent hosting company . . .

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