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Convert doesn't work as regular user when installing from Source
Posted: 2017-03-29T09:45:00-07:00
by abishekrsrikaanth
I installed from source using the steps mentioned here
https://www.imagemagick.org/script/install-source.php.
I am installing the latest version of Imagemagick on Ubuntu 16.04.
The installation seems to work fine, but I can only run convert as a sudo and not as a regular user.
Am I missing something?
Thanks
Abishek R Srikaanth
Re: Convert doesn't work as regular user when installing from Source
Posted: 2017-03-29T09:54:36-07:00
by fmw42
Did you install all your desired delegates first, such as for processing PNG, TIF, JPG files, etc. See
http://www.imagemagick.org/download/delegates/
What do you get from
or
since you did not say what version you installed.
Other than missing delegates, I know little about installing on Linux.
Re: Convert doesn't work as regular user when installing from Source
Posted: 2017-03-29T09:56:58-07:00
by snibgo
I don't use *nix, but that sounds like a privileges problem, perhaps fixable with chmod.
Re: Convert doesn't work as regular user when installing from Source
Posted: 2017-03-29T10:06:33-07:00
by abishekrsrikaanth
Code: Select all
/usr/local/bin$ pwd
/usr/local/bin
/usr/local/bin$ ls -trla convert
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Mar 29 16:30 convert -> magick
@fmw42 thank you.
@snibgo I was thinking permissions too, here is the output for the file permissions. Am i missing anything?
Re: Convert doesn't work as regular user when installing from Source
Posted: 2017-03-29T10:16:47-07:00
by abishekrsrikaanth
@snibgo, got it work. A restart was require for the convert to work without sudo.
Re: Convert doesn't work as regular user when installing from Source
Posted: 2017-03-29T10:40:06-07:00
by fmw42
You did not answer my question. What do you get from running
or if need be
This will tell us what delegates you have installed. Though this is not related to your sudo issue, it is important to have delegates installed to do any useful work.