ImageMagick is a useful command-line image manipulation package.

It was recently updated. The new package, as distributed in the Mandrake Update, results in an unuseable installation of ImageMagick. Each command fails with the error UnableToOpenConfigureFile.

Solution:

To fix this error, check where the package has been installed. In particular, make sure the *.mgk config files are accessible. On my machne, I did

rpm -ql ImageMagick

and I saw that these files were installed in /usr/lib/ImageMagick-6.0.4/config/ and /usr/share/ImageMagick-6.0.4/, and that these dirs were readable only by root! So I did (as root):

chmod a+rx /usr/lib/ImageMagick-6.0.4/config/
chmod a+rx /usr/share/ImageMagick-6.0.4/

Problem solved.

• --Fred Mora