Topic: FYI: You don't need to have 'root' access to install Image Magick!

[matt_rogers]

Have shell access to your server but you have 'user' privileges and not 'root?'

NO PROBLEM. YOU CAN INSTALL IMAGE MAGICK!!!

Let's say you got unix going on your server... this install works:

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Put the tar file where you want it to make the Image Magick folder, then...

> tar -xvzf ImageMagick-6.1.7-7.tar.tar


> ./configure --prefix=/my/home --with-perl-options='PREFIX=/my/home'

** CHANGE /my/home (both times) to YOUR directory where you'd like the Image Magick bin file to go. ***

> make

> make install

THAT'S IT! 


Then in album.cfg update the path to the Image Magick bin file to the path you indicated above (/my/home).


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I just did this and thought it might help someone.

IT WORKS!

 

[Mike Bobbitt]

Sweet. We've been looking for a way to do this for literally years!

Thanks for the tip Matt, it's as useful as it is simple!

[matt_rogers]

No problem Mike. Glad to help. 

[frister]

You may be able to do this even without shell access!

If your FTP client and account allow you to issue SITE commands, you can do it. i.e.:

SITE tar -xvzf ImageMagick-6.1.7-7.tar.tar

or, use a site managment suite such as site-up, that also lets you execute programs on the server (http://www.indexsoft.com)

J.J.

[matt_rogers]

CooL!

[davidguiza]

Any chance that this can be done on a Windows server???