Ruby Error installing rmagick

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SO all begins when i wanted to install zena . But i messed up installing differents parts of Ruby , gems , mysql . In the end . I ended with installing zena correctly , but when i execute : rake zena:init as it says in the tutorial , i receve :

ERROR:  Error installing rmagick:
    ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

/usr/local/bin/ruby extconf.rb
checking for Ruby version >= 1.8.5... yes
checking for gcc... yes
checking for Magick-config... no
Can't install RMagick 2.13.1. Can't find Magick-config in /usr/local/bin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/libexec

*** extconf.rb failed ***
Could not create Makefile due to some reason, probably lack of
necessary libraries and/or headers.  Check the mkmf.log file for more
details.  You may need configuration options.

Provided configuration options:
    --with-opt-dir
    --without-opt-dir
    --with-opt-include
    --without-opt-include=${opt-dir}/include
    --with-opt-lib
    --without-opt-lib=${opt-dir}/lib
    --with-make-prog
    --without-make-prog
    --srcdir=.
    --curdir
    --ruby=/usr/local/bin/ruby

Gem files will remain installed in /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rmagick-2.13.1 for inspection.
Results logged to /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rmagick-2.13.1/ext/RMagick/gem_make.out
Building native extensions.  This could take a while....

I wish i can delete everything and reinstall ruby and all of it more correctly . Can anyone help me with this ? . Thank you guys !

Did you follow the [RMagick installation FAQ](http://rmagick.rubyforge.org/install-faq.html)? In particular, you need to install ImageMagick or similar library. — Jonathan Tran, May 15 '11 at 19:03

score 9 · Answer 1 · edited May 13 '15 at 12:07

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Are you on ubuntu?

Then try to install the this package:

sudo apt-get install libmagickwand-dev

If this didn't help, try to install these packages:

sudo apt-get install build-essential ruby-dev

edited May 13 '15 at 12:07

yesnik

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answered May 15 '11 at 19:54

J-_-L

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@Jonathan Tran I Did followed your tutorial LINK and when i reached to INSTALLING RMAGICK , after installing all above ( mac ports + one more thing ) i tried RMAGIC installing command and output was : It is too long to type here , check output at : http://www.andrei-klauss.ro/output.txt – Klauss May 15 '11 at 20:46

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:46

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The question seems similar to Can't install RMagick 2.13.1. Can't find MagickWand.h. Try my answer there. From the posted log, it seems like it cannot find ImageMagick (which is required) at all.

edited May 23 '17 at 11:46

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answered Jan 31 '12 at 22:25

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score -1 · Answer 3 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:22

Try this when you are getting dependency error: E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead after apt-get update

Otherwise follow the steps mentioned below:

sudo cp /etc/apt/sources.list ~/ 
sudo wget "http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=uzhrtg5M" -O /etc/apt/sources.list 
sudo apt-get update
sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ubuntu-extras.list
sudo apt-get update

Ruby Error installing rmagick

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