More likely to go crazy than to get ImageMagick working

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

I haven’t been using perl for too long. When I d/l a new module(.pm) I just place it in the public_html directory and include the line

use lib '/home/baz/public_html';
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I've never used make or make install or anything like that.
But, now ive decided to get ImageMagick working on unix and to get the perl interface working so that I can use Imagemagick from my scripts. I've downloaded Imagemagick-5.4.6 from ftp.imagemagick.org. In order to install this, it says in the appropriate readme, to type ./configue at the prompt. I've done this, I also tried it using --with-perl. When I type this, it displays lots of status checks to the screen and then finishes appearing that all is well. THe next step, according to readme.txt, is to type display at the prompt, but there is no such file in any of the magick directories. Therefore I'm not sure what to do next. I'm ignoring PerlMagick for now, because my understanding is that I should be able to use ImageMagick from the command prompt...and later, when I get this much working, I can worry about using it from a perl script.
Anyway, at the moment I have noting working, and would be grateful for a little help.
Thanks.
BTW - Im working on the perlmonk.org server.

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Re: More likely to go crazy than to get ImageMagick working by andye (Curate) on Jul 21, 2002 at 16:36 UTC
Baz, Don't do it! Keep a firm hold of your sanity! :) I'm, like, so far from being any sort of expert on this, but as no-one else has commented at all (yet), I'll just point out that ImageMagick is available in rpm format, which might make life easier: http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=ImageMagick hth, andye.	[reply]
Re: More likely to go crazy than to get ImageMagick working by zentara (Cardinal) on Jul 21, 2002 at 19:00 UTC
The next step is usually "make" then "make install". I don't know what the "display" command you mention is. Also you will need root access to install this properly. There are some shared libraries involved. If you don't have root access, you will need to do some fancy declarations of "installdir" when you configure, and some fancy pre-loading of the imagemagick.so libs everytime you run a script.	[reply]
Re: Re: More likely to go crazy than to get ImageMagick working by Baz (Friar) on Jul 21, 2002 at 22:49 UTC
hmmm... THere is no Makefile.PL in the ImageMagick directory, but there is a Makefile, Makefile.in and Makefile.am. THere is a Makefile.PL in the PerlMagick directory, but isnt that for Image::Magick.pm, which is just the perl interface to the Imagemagick tool-set. Anyway, I'm trying to get the tools working first, and it should be possible to run these on the command line - "display" being one such command.	[reply]