Trying to get RMagick Gem installed can be a pain in the butt on any system including Ubuntu Feisty. Thankfully Sur figured out how to do it 3 easy steps.

RMagick requires ImageMagick and all of its crazy dependencies. Luckily Sur found a way to install these ImageMagick dependencies with one step on Ubuntu - libmagick9-dev… and it works on Feisty.

So here’s how you install RMagick gem on Ubuntu Feisty in 3 easy steps:

  1. sudo apt-get install imagemagick
  2. sudo apt-get install libmagick9-dev
  3. sudo gem install rmagick