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Hi!

I have a problem with the Imagemagick convert program. I have installed latest Imagemagick on Debian Lenny.

I have tried the following command:

deRuyter:/home/www/test# convert Ajtony_2010_144.jpg -thumbnail 100x100^ thumbnail.jpg
convert: invalid argument for option `100x100^': -thumbnail.

If I remove the ^ operator, executing the following command

deRuyter:/home/www/test# convert Ajtony_2010_144.jpg -thumbnail 100x100 thumbnail.jpg

the thumbnail picture is generated. The original picture is 1632 x 1232.

As a documentation, I have used the following: http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/thumbnails/#creation

Has anybody any idea about why the ^ operator generates an error message instead of the thumbnail? Thanks a lot!

Ambrus Olah

You most likely have an older version of ImageMagick installed on your system that does not support the ^ geometry modifier. We tried the command with the latest release, 6.6.5-7 and it worked without complaint.

Hi magick!

Thank you very much supporting me!

On the page http://packages.debian.org/lenny/imagemagick I have found that the Debian repo comes with Imagemagick 6.3.7.9

The Ubuntu repo (http://packages.ubuntu.com/maverick/i38 ... k/download) comes with Imagemagick 6.6.2.6
I don't know if it is possible to install the Ubuntu .deb package under Debian but I suppose it should be possible. But still don't know if that version supports the ^ operator.

On the page ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/pub/graphics/ImageMagick/ I have found ImageMagick-6.6.5-6.7z, ImageMagick-6.6.5-6.tar.bz2 and ImageMagick-6.6.5-6.tar.gz I don't know how to install these formats. Can you help me?

Ambrus Olah

see http://www.imagemagick.org/script/comma ... p#geometry

Its was new at 6.3.8.2

Installation instructions are at http://www.imagemagick.org/download/www ... .html#unix

(I am on a Mac, so you might need further help from a Linux user)

Hi!

Thanks a lot because of your help!

I have downloaded ImageMagick-6.6.5-6.tar.bz2. Unpacking and configuring OK, but the command "make" fails with the error message: bash: make: command not found . Where should it be, or shall I install some packagees to have it on my system?

Ambrus Olah

Hi!

I succeded to install make. Running the command make gives another error message: make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.
Now what to do?

Ambrus Olah

did you cd to the directory that was created by the downloaded and decompressed file?

did you then run ./configure
and check for any error messages?

look in the downloaded folder at the file config.log and see if there are any error messages.

Sorry that is the best I can suggest. I am not a Linux guru.

Hi!

I have got some errors after compiling than testing:

make check-am
make[1]: Entering directory `/root/ImageMagick-6.6.5-6'
make tests/validate wand/drawtest wand/wandtest
make[2]: Entering directory `/root/ImageMagick-6.6.5-6'
CC tests/tests_validate-validate.o
CCLD tests/validate
CC wand/drawtest.o
CCLD wand/drawtest
CC wand/wandtest.o
CCLD wand/wandtest
make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/ImageMagick-6.6.5-6'
make check-TESTS check-local
make[2]: Entering directory `/root/ImageMagick-6.6.5-6'
make[3]: Entering directory `/root/ImageMagick-6.6.5-6'
PASS: tests/validate-compare.sh
PASS: tests/validate-composite.sh
PASS: tests/validate-convert.sh
PASS: tests/validate-identify.sh
PASS: tests/validate-import.sh
PASS: tests/validate-montage.sh
PASS: tests/validate-pipe.sh
PASS: tests/validate-stream.sh
PASS: tests/validate-formats-in-memory.sh
PASS: tests/validate-formats-on-disk.sh
PASS: wand/drawtest.sh
FAIL: wand/wandtest.sh
===========================================
1 of 12 tests failed
See ./test-suite.log
Please report to http://www.imagemagick.org
===========================================
make[3]: *** [test-suite.log] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/root/ImageMagick-6.6.5-6'
make[2]: *** [check-TESTS] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/ImageMagick-6.6.5-6'
make[1]: *** [check-am] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/ImageMagick-6.6.5-6'
make: *** [check] Error 2

Any opinion?

Unfortunatally don't have instructions on how to actually create a DEB package from IM examples.
At this time IM can generate RPMs (or you can download them) and you can convert RPM to DEB
but such a package was not built on your specific Linux, it would probably have library miss-match problems.

Does anyone have any easy to follow information on generating a DEB package?