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.