Debian RMagick install: “Can’t find Magick-config”

Published by Daniel on 12th April 2008

Filed Under how to fix the error..., Ruby/RoR

I executed

gem install rmagick

and got the following error:

checking for Magick-config... no
Can't install RMagick 2.3.0. Can't find Magick-config in [...]

I had to install the libmagick9-dev package with

apt-get install libmagick9-dev

to solve this problem.

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#1

Posted by yook on April 13th, 2009 at 2:32 am

Thanks!!!1
#2

Posted by Alex on May 19th, 2009 at 8:44 pm

Thank you for help, that works!
#3

Posted by skob on May 28th, 2009 at 6:20 pm

thank you so much.
for ubuntu it was the packet “libmagickcore-dev”
#4

Posted by noname on June 3rd, 2009 at 6:57 pm

Thx, great help.
#5

Posted by Adrien Lamothe on October 5th, 2009 at 8:38 pm

For Ubuntu, I found that you also need to install libmagickwand-dev in order to install the rmagick gem:

sudo apt-get install libmagickwand-dev

sudo gem install rmagick
#6

Posted by Arun Kumar on October 16th, 2009 at 8:07 am

sudo apt-get install libmagickwand-dev – This thing worked for me :)
#7

Posted by Justme on November 6th, 2009 at 12:04 am

Thanks, great help!!!
#8

Posted by dimanlin on November 11th, 2009 at 4:57 pm

Thanks!!! ;)
#9

Posted by El racó del Ton » Blog Archive » Problem installing rmagick (using ruby 1.9.1) on November 15th, 2009 at 1:09 pm

[...] a little I found this page which explains what to do, which is ‘apt-get install libmagickcore-dev‘ as root or [...]
#10

Posted by Sachin on November 20th, 2009 at 8:40 am

Thanks…:)
#11

Posted by Mark on June 22nd, 2010 at 9:54 pm

On Ubuntu 10.04LTS, I ONLY had to do: apt-get install libmagick9-dev

I did NOT have to install any of the other libs / devs as indicated by others above.
#12

Posted by Alexander on July 9th, 2010 at 10:11 am

Thanx for help!
#13

Posted by @klebervirgilio on August 16th, 2010 at 4:07 pm

WOOOWWW!! Tks so much!! works for me!
#14

Posted by diz on April 4th, 2012 at 7:04 am

yum install ImageMagick-devel
for Fedora (and CentOS)

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Debian RMagick install: “Can’t find Magick-config”