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I'm using Image and Perl Magick in a hosted environment. They've installed ImageMagick-6.3.5 and PerlMagick 6.3.5 on a Redhat server. I've been trying to upload a file using the CGI module for uploads and treating the uploaded file as a BLOB. However it tells me I need to install other helper programs for certain formats. Can you folks please help me find out what other stuff I need in order to work with current GIFs, JPEGs and PNGs?

Look in the 'coders' directory under /usr/lib/ImageMagick....
try the 'ldd' command on the coder's '.so' files you want to use to see if it finds all the libraries needed for that coder. Also for some things like postscript, or direct web URL handling you need programs like gjostscript (gs) or wget.

Thank you for your very quick reply. However I am in a hosted environment and have to access to the command line interface, or at least I don't think I do.

So what does work? have you managed to get the test PHP commands in
http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/api/#php
working?

You can always write your commands into a PHP program and upload that

Well, I'm using Perl and I'm not sure how to phrase those commands.