cat install-imagemagick.sh
#!/bin/bash
 su -c '(

   # uncomment the following line if you need to get the file
   #wget 'http://downloads.sourceforge.net/imagemagick/ImageMagick-6.3.0-5.tar.gz'

   tar -xzvf ImageMagick-6.3.0-5.tar.gz
   cd ImageMagick-6.3.0
   ./configure
   make
   make install
   cd -
   rm -rf ImageMagick-6.3.0
 )' 2>&1 | tee installImageMagickOut.txt

echo "

*****************************************************************

image magic should be installed from source.

now let's test if perl -MImageMagick works

you may get errors about a missing .so file

if this happens, try doing ( updatedb; locate the-so-file.so; )

then change /etc/ld.so.conf to include the directory containing that file

then do ldconfig and try again

*****************************************************************

"

/usr/local/path/to/custom/perl -MImage::Magick -e ''



##</code><code>##

$ cat so-config-imagemagick.sh
#!/bin/bash

./so-config-from-subdir.sh

if [ ! -f /etc/ld.so.conf.d/imagemagick.conf ];
  then echo /usr/local/lib >> /etc/ld.so.conf.d/imagemagick.conf
  ldconfig
fi

result=`/usr/angebote/perlroot/bin/perl -MImage::Magick -e ''`
if [ -n "$result" ];
  then
    echo result: $result
    exit

    echo
      "seems there was a problem configuring shared libraries for image magick

       running /usr/angebote/perlroot/bin/perl -MImage::Magick -e '' resulted in error

       $result

       if you got an error about a missing .so file, try doing ( updatedb; locate the-so-file.so; )

       then change /etc/ld.so.conf to include the directory containing that file

       then do ldconfig and try again
      "
fi
$ cat so-config-from-subdir.sh
#!/bin/bash

# if we aren't reading from the ld.so.conf.d subdir, start doing so

# if the result of the grep is a zero length string
config_from_subdir=`grep 'include /etc/ld.so.conf.d/\*.conf' /etc/ld.so.conf`;
if [ -z "$config_from_subdir" ];
  then
    echo 'include /etc/ld.so.conf.d/*.conf' >> /etc/ld.so.conf
fi
mkdir -p /etc/ld.so.conf.d
$