Installing ImageMagick on Fedora 8 Linux VM

There was a relatively old version of software installed, so I preferred to install from source instead of 'yum install ImageMagick' who told me 'there is no new versions'. I should be verifying why my repositories say that, I know...

Anyway, it was a very easy task. Here are the simple instructions how to install from source: http://www.imagemagick.org/script/install-source.php#unix

Summarizing that, there are just a few simple commands (you should get root permissions or use 'sudo make install' instead of 'make install' below)

tar xvfz ImageMagick.tar.gz
cd ImageMagick-version
./configure
make
make install


'make' took some time, but 'make install' on my machine failed with:
'Can't locate ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm' error in Makefile.PL

I solved this by installing the missing package:

yum install perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker


and running 'make install' again. Running

convert logo: ml.gif


silently created an ImageMagick logo image that can bee viewed in 'ml.gif'

Done