[magick-users] installing imagemagick on a hosted site

[Bob Meetin]

I use a common shared hosting situation for my websites, have 
command-line shell access to my account to the servers.  The version of 
imagemagick is either old or incomplete.  I tried to run a convert 
command, but it came back that "-shadow" is unknown option.  I'm not a 
sysadmin so put this in layman's terms. 

If the hosting company cannot or will not upgrade for any number of 
reasons can I (and how) install a more current version (then of course 
specifiy the path) in my commands?  It would have to be installed in 
webroot or perhaps one directory above.  They do no give access beyond that.

i.e.  /home/$user/www  or /home/$user/bin

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Bob Meetin