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Installing the MySQL Ruby Gem on CentOS5

Monday, March 2nd, 2009

Pretty easy

yum install mysql-devel
gem install mysql — –with-mysql-config=/usr/bin/mysql_config –with-mysql-lib=/usr/lib/mysql

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Installing RMagick2 on CentOS5

Monday, September 8th, 2008

I have just gone through hell attempting to install ImageMagick, RMagick2 on our CentOS5 server, and thought others might find this information useful.
It should have been as easy as

yum install ImageMagick
gem install rmagick

But unfortunately it wasn’t. The reason is because yum will install ImageMagick 6.2.8.0, while RMagick2 requires ImageMagick 6.3.0 or higher. Fantastic. My sysadmin [...]

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