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Hi all,
I have a Dedicated Server running RH Linux 9. Now I need to remotely install ImageMagic on it. I have tried to install it, but it required X lib. Can anyone tell me where to get X package in RPM form? I do not know how to install softwares in binaries form.
warning: yum-2.3.2-1.noarch.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 30c9ecf8
error: Failed dependencies:
libxml2-python is needed by yum-2.3.2-1
python(abi) = 2.4 is needed by yum-2.3.2-1
python-elementtree is needed by yum-2.3.2-1
python-sqlite is needed by yum-2.3.2-1
rpm-python is needed by yum-2.3.2-1
urlgrabber is needed by yum-2.3.2-1
Downloading all the dependencies and installing them are complicated. I'd rather install X package in binaries form. But the command "./configure." always replies the message: "./configure: No such file or directory." Can anyone tell me which package the command "configure" belongs to?
Download and install would be far easier than you compile X11 on your computer. Even without your current configure problem, it is not a easy task in itself. Besides, after the installation of X11 you may need the desktop system such as KDE...
My advise is - pay this initial price and have yum installed.
Hi 'notooth', if you do not need the latest version of ImageMagic you can install the version that shipped with RH9, then possibly there may not be too many newer dependencies. Look here for the official packages shipped with RH9:
If 'configure' is not running then you probably do not have the "Developer Packages" installed. These include the compiler, make system and multiple other components. This is just a possibility.
Ugh, ./configure is not part of a package at all! It's not part of development libraries or anything else - it is JUST a script that some developers include with their source code and some don't. If there is no configure script included in the source package then there is almost certainly a file called either README or INSTALL that will detail how to install the program.
Originally posted by Komakino Ugh, ./configure is not part of a package at all! It's not part of development libraries or anything else
Who said it was part of a package? There is a difference between development libraries and development tools.
ImageMagick uses a standard 'configure' script included in the tarball. Furthermore to compile after running the configure script you need make and gcc. The same packages I mentioned in my previous post.
I simply made a suggestion to have the compiler installed. Ugh, arrogance. Whatever.
Finally, I installed ImageMagick successfully with binary package, but it does not work correctly. It always replied "convert: no decode delegate for this image format 'pic2.png' " when I executed command "convert." I guess it required some packages to work perfectly, but I am not sure what they are.
Originally posted by mjmwired Who said it was part of a package? There is a difference between development libraries and development tools.
ImageMagick uses a standard 'configure' script included in the tarball. Furthermore to compile after running the configure script you need make and gcc. The same packages I mentioned in my previous post.
I simply made a suggestion to have the compiler installed. Ugh, arrogance. Whatever.
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Originally posted by notooth Can anyone tell me which package the command "configure" belongs to?
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Originally posted by you If 'configure' is not running then you probably do not have the "Developer Packages" installed.
.. the implication of the latter (to a new user) being that configure is part of the developer packages. This is something that comes up a lot: "Help! Configure not found!!" because people assume it's a program much like make.
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