Difference between revisions of "Upgrading Imagemagick to a current version"
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Revision as of 16:54, 8 September 2010
Following How do I install ImageMagick 6.5.6 on Debian Lenny? it is possible to backport a current version of Imagemagick into the debian system. First make sure to add the source repository:
sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list
# comment for backporting imagemagick to imagemagick-6.6.0.4
deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free
# Start the building process:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get build-dep imagemagick # build dependencies
# Change to a directory you'll be using for building
cd ~/temp/ # go to a temporary home directory
# For the next part you can be a regular user.
apt-get source imagemagick # fetch all current header source files to enable building from source
dir -all # list files
cd imagemagick-6.6.0.4/
fakeroot debian/rules binary # compile and build the stuff → *.dep
# last message looks like:
# dpkg-deb: building package `imagemagick' in `../imagemagick_6.6.0.4-2.2_i386.deb'.
# ...
sudo dpkg -i *.deb # install debian packages with the package manager
# remove temporary data
cd ~/temp/
rm -r imagemagick-6.6.0.4*
Final note: «Enjoy your new packages, but remember to check for security releases periodically and rebuild as needed, as you are now outside of Debian's security release framework. You may want to consider subscribing to the debian-security-announce mailing list.»
