My Head Hurts: ImageMagick, Homebrew, the NEWS.txt error

Monday, April 11, 2011

Seems like everyone has trouble installing ImageMagick, but everyone has a slightly different problem. In my case I was getting the error:

Error: No such file or directory - /usr/local/Cellar/imagemagick/6.6.7-10/share/ImageMagick/NEWS.txt

To fix this, do "brew edit imagemagick" (or "sudo brew edit imagemagick" if that's how you brew) and find these lines:

# We already copy these into the keg root
%w[NEWS.txt LICENSE ChangeLog].each {|f| (share+"ImageMagick/#{f}").unlink }

and comment out that line of Ruby. Re-run "brew install imagemagick" and it should work.

Tim Su said...: Thanks, that was super helpful!; 4/11/2011 8:54 PM
squarism said...: Thank you so much! Just trying to get a ruby gem installed. I tried many different ways of installing it. The git repo compiled and configured fine and I thought it was the configure flags. So I was chopping off the configure flags one at a time with no luck. Then this post fixed the problem. I wonder when this popped up with this homebrew formula (this didn't happen last time I did this install)? I wonder if anyone is going to fix it?; 4/13/2011 11:31 AM
Curtis said...: Just wanted to say thanks for the help, I wasn't looking forward to troubleshooting this one.; 7/04/2011 10:05 AM