Questions and postings pertaining to the usage of ImageMagick regardless of the interface. This includes the command-line utilities, as well as the C and C++ APIs. Usage questions are like "How do I use ImageMagick to create drop shadows?".
Try converting a GIF image to another GIF image. If that works your ImageMagick distrbution was installed correctly. That means when ImageMagick was built it did not find the JPEG delegate library which is required to read/write JPEG images.