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So I tried to install ImageMagick...

MellsMells Guru
edited November 2013 in Relax cafe
Please note that this is a "Relax cafe" discussion. That's why it's off topic.

Hi,

I just tried to install ImageMagick on my Mac. Which asked me to install MacPorts (mmm..).
I'm a fairly new Mac user, not so familiar with the Terminal (sorry, I ... hate that).
I like the Mac App Store and want to stay away from the command line whenever I can.

Well, I don't know why but those tools always have the worst website and install procedures that exist.

So my question is :
I "just" wanted to install ImageMagick but here is what I got :
--->  Dependencies to be installed: autoconf m4 perl5 perl5.12 gdbm gettext expat libiconv gperf ncurses xz automake bzip2 djvulibre jpeg libpng zlib librsvg cairo fontconfig freetype pkgconfig glib2 libffi libpixman xorg-libXext libtool xorg-libX11 xorg-bigreqsproto xorg-inputproto xorg-kbproto xorg-libXau xorg-xproto xorg-libXdmcp xorg-libxcb python27 db46 db_select libedit openssl python_select sqlite3 xorg-libpthread-stubs xorg-xcb-proto libxml2 xorg-util-macros xorg-xcmiscproto xorg-xextproto xorg-xf86bigfontproto xorg-xtrans xorg-xcb-util xrender xorg-renderproto gdk-pixbuf2 gobject-introspection jasper tiff libart_lgpl libcroco libgsf intltool gnome-common p5.12-getopt-long p5.12-pathtools p5.12-scalar-list-utils p5.12-xml-parser pango Xft2 harfbuzz graphite2 cmake libidn fftw-3 ghostscript jbig2dec libpaper xorg-libXt xorg-libsm xorg-libice lcms2 urw-fonts webp
-> Can someone tell me if all those dependencies a really needed?
I hate to pollute my system with unneeded files, especially that I have no clue on how to manually uninstall them.

I love the Mac App Store for this. Install. Uninstall. Done.
Why aren't all those clever people able to think about easy and intuitive ways to install and use all of the tools that they create, that makes me crazy.

/End of my rant...







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Comments

  • That looks horrible :))

    I can't answer your question above. But there seems to be a binary for Mac, have you tried? http://www.imagemagick.org/script/binary-releases.php

    What are you using ImageMagick for?
  • Why aren't all those clever people able to think about easy and intuitive ways to install and use all of the tools that they create, that makes me crazy.
    While I agree with you, open source tools unfortunately are that way and the worst part is that the *clever people* create yet another distribution tool and language rather than enhance or keep the ones that already exist.

    One of the main reasons for that is many of the Open Source developers use Unix and they are used to getting the libraries that they need, on more mature and end user systems like Windows and Macs, these libraries are not easily added, that is where they create a similar environment to what they have on the Unix box, e.g. Cygwin for windows.

    Yes, it is frustrating to have 5 versions of python and perl just so that the utility that prints hello world could work, these versions do not clash like windows 'DLL hell' but many a times confuse other programs that rely on a specific version of these libraries. So App A requires Python 2.4, App B requires 2.6 and App C requires 3.0, then after a while App B would complain that it cannot find ver 2.6, etc, etc.

    After seeing how half the apps dump their overheads onto the HDD, sometimes allowing the additional files to be installed into /bin might seem like a good compromise, if you are game enough.
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  • MellsMells Guru
    edited November 2013
    @phongtt
    But there seems to be a binary for Mac, have you tried?
    They suggested that doing it through the Macports is the best way to install :(
    Now it's too late I'm afraid.
    What are you using ImageMagick for?
    I wanted a way to split a set of images into several images ... 9x9 grid, 16x16grid.
    I didn't find how to do it with Pixelmator/Gimp/Automator through a script and it seems everywhere people were talking about ImageMagick.

    So everything is installed, took 1Go+, I have no idea what was installed and where, and how to uninstall it.

    @OZApps
    open source tools unfortunately are that way
    that's a shame because that makes whatever they do far less accessible.
    A waste of talent.
    And I'm even not talking about the docs :/
    create yet another distribution tool and language rather than enhance or keep the ones that already exist.
    Most wouldn't admit, but that's also an ego matter.
    After seeing how half the apps dump their overheads onto the HDD, sometimes allowing the additional files to be installed into /bin might seem like a good compromise, if you are game enough.
    I wish I could understand what you just said.

    How would you do to uninstall everything that was installed without breaking the system?
    This killed my productivity today, and my machine is cluttered with all that stuff.

    To clarify I'm really frustrated but I'm indeed very grateful that some of those useful are made available to all, for free, by devs.
    I'm frustrated *because* those tools are great and have so much potential.
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  • After seeing how half the apps dump their overheads onto the HDD, sometimes allowing the additional files to be installed into /bin might seem like a good compromise, if you are game enough.
    I wish I could understand what you just said.

    How would you do to uninstall everything that was installed without breaking the system?
    This killed my productivity today, and my machine is cluttered with all that stuff.
    Let me try with < rant = OFF >
    There are plenty of apps that install or dump huge files on the HDD. Even iTunes keeps downloading all the apps to the HDD even if you don't what them to. Plus some others bundle the entire libraries and frameworks (statically linked) than dynamically linked. Static could be a standalone but rather large Exe, where as the dynamic would be small but depends on the libraries being present on the system.

    So in that scenario, since there already is a lot of stuff being dumped onto the system that you are hardly aware of, a few more KB's or MB's of files that go to your /bin directory and could be useful for command-line utilities would not make a dent either. So it could be a good compromise, if you are game enough< / rant = OFF >

    Hope it was a bit clearer than before.
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