[magick-users] ImageMagick Installation on a Godaddy

[Brian Jackson]

On Wednesday 24 January 2007 02:57, liberal liberte wrote:
> Hi,
> i am a newbie
> i want to install Imagemagick to Godaddy but havent succeded for 3
> days. It is Fedora 4 Os.

How'd you get Fedora 4???  I'm stuck with RedHat 9!!  Personally I would 
prefer Suse, but oh well.

> I have tried nonroot method and root install method,
> both from binaries and from sources but nothing happens
> My script says
> The installer found the ImageMagick 'convert' program in
> '/usr/local/bin/', however it can't be executed by the script. at
> last. I have tried to change owner and groups of /usr/local/bin and
> chmod 777 all files under it but again this message happens.
> Is there any body who knows to install Imagemagick on a Godaddy
> Virtual Dedicated Server? 

Stupid question, but is '/usr/local/bin' in your PATH?

Have you tried to build it on you home system statically and just upload 
the tarball?

> or 
> Is there any one who knows a better hosting company because i have
> written more than 30 emails to GoDaddy support, even some support
> team does not know that their yum command is disabled. Thanx

Never tried to contact support, just tried to hash things out myself.  
Although it would be nice to see if I can get a newer OS :)

good luck,
brian

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