[magick-users] Updating ImageMagick version on Centos5

[Noel da Costa]

Hi there,

My server runs CentOS5.. for which there are no IM binaries.
When I first set up the server I used rpmbuild --rebuild on the  
ImageMagick.src.rpm. This worked wonderfully. However, now that I need  
to upgrade ImageMagick, my process isn't working... (something about  
prelink -u on the rpm breaking rebuild, or vice versa - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=218222) 
.

I'm not a "make" guru.. I'm honestly clueless when it comes to the  
nitty gritty of Unix appliation installation (why does it have to be  
so complicated).
I've tried installing ImageMagick from source before manually and I've  
never succeeded... not once, even when following the instructions for  
Advanced Installation. There's always some undocumented gotcha, due to  
system difference. There's always a trillion dependancies that fail  
and I'm never sure where the files end up or how to actually register  
them with the system so that all the libraries link up together.

What I really need is a simple way for me to keep my ImageMagic  
installation up to date.
What woudl be even better is if there was a way to install multiple  
versions in different locations, so that if a feature breaks in a  
newer version, I can just point the app back to the old version  
without pulling out all my hair.

Is this possible? Can you help?


Thanks,

Noel da Costa
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