Install ImageMagick on CentOS 5

[anthony]

Sorry I have been away in china, and as I administer Centos server I can answer this.

First Centos is production server linux distribution. That means it is old, so as to ensure stability! That means the libraries are also old, and binary versions will probably not work.
also the provided version of IM will also be old, as in medieval in IM development terms.

Your only real soltuion is to build a IM specifically for your server, to replace the RPM package. However the RPM package is being depended on by other packages (from the gnome system), making it difficult to replace.

I suggest you build a private or /opt version to co-exist with the system version.

Yes you can have multiple IM's on a system, but you must make sure that PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH's are right so that when you use the new version you ONLY use new version components.

See some raw notes in my 'tower of computation sorcery' on installing IM in different
ways.
http://www.cit.gu.edu.au/~anthony/graph ... gick.hints
Those notes were distilled from the main IM web site "Resources" page
http://imagemagick.org/script/resources.php#environment