ImageMagick OS X Installer

Installing ImageMagick / RMagick on OS X does not have to be a hastle. There is a very handy install script on RubyForge that does all of the work for you.

http://rubyforge.org/projects/rmagick/

Just be sure you have the following prereqs already installed on your Mac:

  • XCode Tools
  • X11 SDK
  • X11.app

Also, even though the script is supposed to include RMagick Ruby library, that piece did not work for me. Luckily, a simple “sudo gem install rmagick” worked like a champ for me.

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