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I have spent 3 evenings trying to install ImageMagick and to cut a long story short my latest attempt comes up with: error while loading shared libraries: libMagickCore.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

This is the process I have been going through:
# uninstall old ImageMagick
yum remove ImageMagick

# get new ImageMagick sources
wget ftp://ftp.imagemagick.org/pub/ImageMagi ... ick.tar.gz

# untar
tar -zxvf ImageMagick*.tar.gz
cd ImageMagick*

# configure and make
./configure
make

# install
make install

Any ideas where I am going wrong ?

Did you download the right software? Looks like you got the unix version?

For windows, see http://www.imagemagick.org/download/www ... ml#windows

Hi Bonzo. I can't remember if you run Mac, Windows or *nix.

On Ubuntu, I have spent a frustrating few days compiling IM and especially ffmpeg, and all their various dependancies.

It turns out the trick for IM (and ffmpeg) both is to ensure I have done both:
before doing ./configure with all its options.
shows:

linux-gate.so.1 => (0xb7ff6000)
libMagickCore.so.3 => /usr/local/lib/libMagickCore.so.3 (0xb7be8000)
libMagickWand.so.3 => /usr/local/lib/libMagickWand.so.3 (0xb7ab6000)

etc, and ls -ltr /usr/local/lib/libMagickCore.so.3* shows

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 8573190 2010-02-18 04:47 /usr/local/lib/libMagickCore.so.3.0.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 2010-02-18 04:47 /usr/local/lib/libMagickCore.so.3 -> libMagickCore.so.3.0.0

Thanks for the replys; this time I am working a link server and will give your recomendations a go snibgo.

According to Putty I now have Imagemagick installed but need to wait until I get home to restart http? and check.

A server restart and we are up and running now

Thanks snibgo! That just solved the problem.