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Problem installing ImageMagick

Hi,
I am trying to install ImageMagick and on entering the command:

rpm -i ImageMagick-6.0.8-3.i386.rpm

I get the following message:
error: Failed dependencies:
libltdl is needed by ImageMagick-6.0.8-3

I have libtool installed and I can see the following library under /usr/lib :-
/usr/lib/libltdl.so

which apparently seems to be the one it asks for. Introducing /usr/lib in the LD_LIBRARY_PATH(I know it is evil :-)) didn't work either.

Any ideas what I need to do here?

EinarTh

1) /usr/lib/libltdl.so is usually a symbolic link to the real library. Check if it's pointing to the real thing

2) This is propably because the latest-and-greatest ImageMagick needs a very recent version of libltdl. Do a rpm -qpi --requires /path/to/ImageMagick-6.0.8-3.i386.rpm
and check if the versions listed there match the one you have (see step 1). If not you'll have to upgrade libltdl.

cheers.

sandeep_th

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Hi Einar,
Upon your suggestion, I tried the rpm -qpi --requires command and amongst the various "requires" I saw these two:

libltdl
libltdl.so.3

whereas my /usr/lib/libltdl.so was a link to /usr/lib/libltdl.so.3.1

So I modified it so that it looked as follows:

/usr/lib # ll /usr/lib/libltdl.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 2004-09-21 15:45 /usr/lib/libltdl.so -> libltdl.so.3

But it still doesn't work.....same errror!!!!!

sandeep_th

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Just realized it was a silly thing to do........'cause it is like this:-

libltdl.so.3 -> libltdl.so.3.1.0

In any case it looks I got a more recent version of this library than is required by ImageMagick....so this doesn't seem to be the problem.

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EinarTh

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EinarTh

That's s'posed to be "rpm -Uhv --nodeps ImageMagick-6.0.8-3.i386.rpm" of course.... not --Uhv

sandeep_th

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Thanks...that DID help