ImageMagick / RMagick - Can't install RMagick 2.13.1. Can't find Magick-config

Question

I used a script to install ImageMagick http://github.com/masterkain/ImageMagick-sl

After a while, I got ImageMagick installed.

Then I ran sudo gem install rm

Answer 1

Initially, I came around to installing rmagick because it seemed to be a dependency when I tried installing libgtk2.0-dev. I was trying to install that package, because the RGtk2.0 is a requirement for using R package called rattle.

Anyway, none of the above solutions worked for me in installing in my Ubuntu 12.04. Even running sudo apt-get update first didn't seem to help, nor this related posting: Installing rmagick on Ubuntu

I eventually found what works is to troubleshoot using sudo aptitude rather than apt-get. https://askubuntu.com/questions/223237/unable-to-correct-problems-you-have-held-broken-packages

I recommend the technique of using aptitude to work through the package installation issue.