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jack
Asked: 2009-12-24 23:53:37 +0800 CST

Install ImageMagick with liquid-rescale support

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I have installed ImageMagick 6.5.8 from source on Ubuntu 8.10 followed by the instructions listed here

> tar xvfz ImageMagick.tar.gz
> cd ImageMagick-6.5.8
> ./configure
> make
> sudo make install

Installation was successful but when I try to use 'liquid-rescale' operator it showed:

> convert source.png -liquid-rescale 500x500 output.png
convert: delegate library support not built-in `source.png' (LQR) @ resize.c/LiquidRescaleImage/1550.

Looks like it was compiled without liquid-rescale support.

I wonder how to turn on liquid-rescale when installing ImageMagick from source.

Thanks in advance.

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1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Did you have the liblqr headers installed when you compiled imagemagick?

    If you're on Debian/Ubuntu, you need to install the liblqr-1-0-dev package.

    If you are on Ubuntu, you can also search PPAs. This PPA has imagemagick for karmic in 6.5.5.3 so and is built against liblqr, so it should work.

    Edit: I see you're on Ubuntu Intrepid (8.10), so this PPA won't do. So, to make it as clean as possible without making it too complicated, this is what you can do:

      # Create a copy of your sources.list to get the dependencies
  $ cp /etc/apt/sources.list $HOME/imagemagick.list
  # Add the PPA anyway, with deb-src to grab the source
  $ cat <<EOF | tee -a $HOME/imagemagick.list
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/cristiklein/ppa/ubuntu karmic main
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/cristiklein/ppa/ubuntu karmic main
EOF
  # install apt-build
  $ sudo apt-get install apt-build
  # For some reason I had to install libgtk2.0-dev (on Karmic at least)
  $ sudo apt-get install libgtk2.0-dev
  # Build and install imagemagick
  $ sudo apt-build --sources-list $HOME/imagemagick.list install imagemagick

    That said, Intrepid is getting quite old, and is not even an LTS version, so I'd recommend upgrading.

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