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Installing Forem on Ubuntu 18.04 (Part 4 - ImageMagick)

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If there is anything you would like me to change, please comment. This section of the guide assumes you have already installed PostgreSQL from the previous article.

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Prerequisites

Make sure you have the dependencies installed by typing:

$ sudo apt-get install build-essential checkinstall libx11-dev libxext-dev zlib1g-dev libpng-dev libjpeg-dev libfreetype6-dev libxml2-dev -y
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Installing ImageMagick

Clone 'ImageMagick' from the the source repository into '~/ImageMagick' by typing:

$ git clone https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick.git ~/ImageMagick
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Next step is to configure and compile ImageMagick by typing:

$ cd ~/ImageMagick
$ ./configure
$ make
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If ImageMagick is configured and compiled without any issue, you are ready to install it on your system. Administrator privileges are required. To install, type:

$ sudo make install
$ sudo ldconfig /usr/local/lib
$ sudo make check
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To verify ImageMagick is installed type:

$ identify -version
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The output will be something like this:

Version: ImageMagick 7.0.10-29 Q16 x86_64 2020-08-21 https://imagemagick.org
Copyright: © 1999-2020 ImageMagick Studio LLC
License: https://imagemagick.org/script/license.php
Features: Cipher DPC HDRI OpenMP(4.5) 
Delegates (built-in):
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In case if it gives you an error and the output is:

identify: error while loading shared libraries: libMagickCore-7.Q16HDRI.so.7: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
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For some reason the LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable isn't being created by the installation of ImageMagick. To solve this issue you need to create it manually by typing:

$ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib
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Akhil Naidu •

Nice Series @avalerionv

I would like to know about a specific topic and its probability to come in this series.

Will you talk about pushing the code to Heroku or some VPS and configure the production version of Forem?

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Dawood Khan Masood • • Edited

@jdoss wrote a great article on how they configured Forem.dev for live production on single AWS instance behind an NLB. Though I am not sure about Heroku but I will definitely try to cover a section where I reproduce the same configurations on GCE VM.

I read your awesome article to install Forem using Docker on Ubuntu. Good job! I am guessing you will also try to cover the same topic? If that is the case, please do so. At least for me it will be a great learning experience. :)

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Akhil Naidu • • Edited

Wow, the article you attached gave me a brief view of how to proceed. I too will spend time on it, till I break something 😅.

Let us make some good documentation or guides for the needed to improve community engagement.

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Dawood Khan Masood •

Happy to help! And good luck with your progress. I will be looking forward to your future contribution. :)

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Dawood Khan Masood • • Edited

Mods, please delete this comment. For some reason I am unable to.

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