Upgrading ImageMagick on CentOS 5

Lasso Professional 8.6 and Lasso 9 Server for CentOS 5 includes native support for ImageMagick 6.2.8, the latest official package. However, this package does not reflect the newer updates for ImageMagick. Therefore, LassoSoft, Inc. recommends installing ImageMagick 6.6.5 on CentOS 5, along with a new ImageTag module if running Lasso Professional 8.6.

ImageMagick 6.6.5 installation

• Uninstall ImageMagick-6.2.8

yum remove ImageMagick

• Add the EPEL repository to yum:

	rpm -Uvh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm

• Add the RPMForge repository to yum by following these instructions: http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/RPMForge?action=show&redirect=Repositories/RPMForge#head-5aabf02717d5b6b12d47edbc5811404998926a1b
• Install dependencies for ImageMagick 6.6
  • For 32-bit systems: 

    yum install djvulibre openexr jasper libwmf libtool-ltdl

  • For 64-bit systems: 

    yum install djvulibre openexr jasper libwmf.x86_64 libtool-ltdl.x86_64

• Download and install ImageMagick 6.6.5
  • For 32-bit systems: ImageMagick-6.6.5.i386.rpm
  • For 64-bit systems: ImageMagick-6.6.5.x86_64.rpm

rpm -ivh ImageMagick-6.6.5*

ImageTag installation for Lasso Professional 8.6

• Download and unzip the new ImageTag module
  • For 32-bit systems: ImageTag.i386-IM-6.6.5.zip
  • For 64-bit systems: ImageTag.x86_64-IM-6.6.5.zip
• Move the new ImageTag.so file into "/usr/local/Lasso Professional 8/LassoModules/"
• Restart Lasso

sudo lasso8ctl restart

Note: The newer verion of ImageMagick will supercede the default version provided by CentOS when using yum install/update. To install the CentOS version of ImageMagick, disable the lassosoft repo when running the yum command like so: `yum install --disablerepo=lassosoft ImageMagick`.

Troubleshooting

If the Image tags do not load run these commands:

cd "/usr/local/Lasso Professional 8/LassoModules/"
ldd ImageTag.so

The output will look something like this:

linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0x00d86000)
libMagickCore.so.4 => /usr/lib/libMagickCore.so.4 (0x005c8000)
libmagic.so.1 => /usr/lib/libmagic.so.1 (0x00599000)

Ensure that any libraries listed as "not found" are installed in the correct location.

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