[Xastir] New install on FC1

Gerry Creager N5JXS gerry.creager at tamu.edu
Fri May 7 10:08:14 EDT 2004


yum is your friend for FC1 updates.  It's also the new core of the 
update system.
gerry

Curt, WE7U wrote:
> On Thu, 6 May 2004, KC7ZRU wrote:
> 
> 
>>I think I've seen others mention this or a similar problem and it turned
>>out to be a problem with a particular ImageMagick version?? ./configure
>>was happy and it's summary said ImageMagick woudl be used.
>>
>>ImageMagick-5.5.6-5.i386.rpm and ImageMagick-devel-5.5.6-5.i386.rpm
> 
> 
> I seem to recall a similar problem.  I think I experienced it with
> one version of ImageMagick, and I recall others reporting this
> problem at times.  Been a while though.
> 
> I'd definitely check for updated ImageMagick RPM's on the Fedora
> site, and perhaps on rpmfind.  If all else fails, installing from
> sources usually works, but at this point I'd stay away from the 6.x
> releases.
> 
> With all the problems we've had with ImageMagick, it sure would be
> nice to get GDAL in there instead, which would give us
> JPG/GIF/PNG/XPM and some others.  We could then skip ImageMagick
> altogether.
> 
> Another option is to put GraphicsMagick support in there.  They're a
> fork of the ImageMagick project, and their aim is to provide a more
> stable API.
> 
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