Rails: Error installing rmagick - ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension - ruby-on-rails

Question

I am trying to run one project on my local machine. I installed Ruby and Rails on my Mac OS system. It is working properly. I can create a new project and can run it properly without any error, but when I try to run the existing project it says that we have to bundle install. When I run that command I get the following error:
"An error occurred while installing rmagick (2.13.2), and Bundler cannot continue.
Make sure that `gem install rmagick -v '2.13.2'` succeeds before bundling."
When I run gem install rmagick -v '2.13.2' it gives me the following error:
ERROR: Error installing rmagick:
ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
/usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p392/bin/ruby extconf.rb
checking for Ruby version >= 1.8.5... yes
checking for gcc-4.2... yes
checking for Magick-config... no
Can't install RMagick 2.13.2. Can't find Magick-config in /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p392/bin:/usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p392#global/bin:/usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p392/bin:/usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p392/bin:/usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p392#global/bin:/usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p392/bin:/usr/local/rvm/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/opt/sm/bin:/opt/sm/pkg/active/bin:/opt/sm/pkg/active/sbin
*** extconf.rb failed ***
Could not create Makefile due to some reason, probably lack of
necessary libraries and/or headers. Check the mkmf.log file for more
details. You may need configuration options.
Provided configuration options:
--with-opt-dir
--without-opt-dir
--with-opt-include
--without-opt-include=${opt-dir}/include
--with-opt-lib
--without-opt-lib=${opt-dir}/lib
--with-make-prog
--without-make-prog
--srcdir=.
--curdir
--ruby=/usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p392/bin/ruby
Gem files will remain installed in /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p392/gems/rmagick-2.13.2 for inspection.
Results logged to /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p392/gems/rmagick-2.13.2/ext/RMagick/gem_make.out
I have searched and did not find an answer anywhere.

Answer 1

For Ubuntu, I used the ff. based on this link:
$ sudo apt-get install libmagick++-dev

Answer 2

On a mac (the below code works on OSX Mavericks):
brew install imagemagick
gem install rmagick

Answer 3

On Mac you can try this:
$ brew unlink imagemagick
$ brew install imagemagick#6 && brew link imagemagick#6 --force
$ gem install rmagick

Answer 4

I have solved this problem by installing imagemagic:
sudo apt-get install imagemagick
and then install libmagick package:
sudo apt-get install libmagick++-dev

Answer 5

For Linux Fedora, I got same error and fixed with below two commands:
yum install ImageMagick
gem install rmagick
For Centos install ImageMagick-devel package. using below commands:
yum install ImageMagick-devel
gem install rmagick

Answer 6

First, make sure you've installed Imagemagick :
$ sudo apt-get install imagemagick
Now, it can build the gem native extension.
Then, install the Rmagick gem :
$ sudo gem install rmagick

Answer 7

here's what i did on 16.04,
sudo apt-get install libmagickwand-dev
sudo apt-get install graphicsmagick-imagemagick-compat
and then install gem like that
PATH="/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ImageMagick-6.8.9/bin-Q16:$PATH" gem install rmagick -v '2.13.2'

Answer 8

May be you are installing ImageMagick version 7.x.x which will generate different folder names in your usr/lib/local/include/ImageMagick7.x.x folder.
E.g.
In ImageMagick6.x.x version we have magick, wand named folders, where in ImageMagick7.x.x version have named this MagickCore , MagickWand . So this updation is causing the problem in some gem installation like here. Which is using
magick/some_header.h or wand/some_header.h (Means they are not updated with the new 7.x.x ImageMagick version).That's why we are getting this error :
```
checking for outdated ImageMagick version (<= 6.4.9)... no
checking for presence of MagickWand API (ImageMagick version >= 6.9.0)... no
....
checking for wand/MagickWand.h... no
```
and in log file something like this :
error: 'MagickCore/method-attribute.h' file not found
#include "MagickCore/method-attribute.h"
^
Solution
Install the ImageMagick6.x.x version in your system from the official site : https://www.imagemagick.org/download/ and install it using this commands(after extract zip/tar) :
./configure
make
make install
Then do
gem install rmagick
It will work.

Answer 9

As per the error log it looks like "Magick-config" is missing.
You need to install ImageMagik or GraphicsMagick. These are the commands you should follow which is taken from RMagik Documentation:
1) Go to http://www.imagemagick.org or http://www.graphicsmagick.org and download the latest version of the software to a temporary directory. the extract them :
- tar xvzf ImageMagick.tar.gz
- cd ImageMagick-x.x.x
- ./configure --disable-static --with-modules --without-perl --without-magick-plus-plus --with-quantum-depth=8
- make
- sudo make install
- sudo gem install rmagick

Answer 10

Solution for Ubuntu:
sudo apt-get install imagemagick
ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ImageMagick-6.8.9/bin-Q16/Magick-config /usr/bin/Magick-config

Answer 11

first run this:
sudo apt-get install imagemagick
then: sudo apt-get install libmagick++-dev
now install rmagick: gem install rmagick

Answer 12

Just run these command
• $ sudo apt-get install imagemagick
• $ sudo apt-get install libmagick++-dev
• $ sudo gem install rmagick
• $ bundle install

Answer 13

I had this same issue when setting up a Rails 6 application in Ubuntu 20.04.
Here's how I solved it
RMagick is an interface between the Ruby programming language and the ImageMagick image processing library. So we first need to install development libraries for ImageMagick:
Step 1:
On Ubuntu, you can run:
sudo apt-get install libmagickwand-dev
On Centos, you can run:
sudo yum install gcc ImageMagick-devel make which
On Arch Linux, you can run:
pacman -Syy pkg-config imagemagick
On Alpine Linux, you can run:
apk add pkgconfig imagemagick imagemagick-dev imagemagick-libs
or you can run if you would like to use ImageMagick 6:
apk add pkgconfig imagemagick6 imagemagick6-dev imagemagick6-libs
On macOS, you can run:
brew install pkg-config imagemagick
or you can run if you would like to use ImageMagick 6:
brew install pkg-config imagemagick#6
On Windows:
Install the latest Ruby+Devkit package which you can get from RubyInstaller for Windows.
You might need to configure PATH environment variable to where the compiler is located.
(Ex: set PATH=C:\Ruby27-x64\msys64\usr\bin;C:\Ruby27-x64\msys64\mingw64\bin;%PATH%)
Download ImageMagick-7.XXXX-Q16-x64-dll.exe (not, ImageMagick-7.XXXX-Q16-x64-static.exe) binary from Windows Binary Release, or you can download ImageMagick 6 from Windows Binary Release.
Install ImageMagick. You need to turn on checkboxes Add application directory to your system path and Install development headers and librarries for C and C++ in an installer for RMagick.
Step 2:
Install the RMagick ruby gem:
gem install rmagick
Step 3:
Now you can add the RMagick ruby gem to your Gemfile:
gem 'rmagick', '~> 4.1'
Note: As of this writing the latest version is 4.1
Step 4:
Finally, you can run bundle install to install the gem to your application.
Resources: rmagick/rmagick GitHub page
That's all.
I hope this helps

Answer 14

Just install ImageMagick-devel package and everything should be fine :)

Answer 15

For Ubuntu Server, I installed it by doing this:
sudo apt-get install imagemagick
sudo apt-get install libmagick++-dev
sudo gem install rmagick -v '2.15.4'

Answer 16

All here wrong for me :(
this helped:
sudo apt-get install libmagickwand-dev
according to rmagick github page
then bundle install went with no errors

Answer 17

If you are using openSUSE, then first check if the ImageMagick installed or not. If it is installed, then do install it development header file.
[arup#sztukajedzenia]$ sudo zypper se imagemagic
root\'s password:
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
S | Name | Summary | Type
--+-------------------+-------------------------------------------------------+-----------
i | ImageMagick | Viewer and Converter for Images | package
| ImageMagick | Viewer and Converter for Images | srcpackage
| ImageMagick-devel | Include Files and Libraries Mandatory for Development | package
| ImageMagick-doc | Document Files for ImageMagick Library | package
| ImageMagick-extra | Viewer and Converter for Images - extra codecs | package
[arup#sztukajedzenia]$ sudo zypper in ImageMagick-devel
root\'s password:
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
Resolving package dependencies...
The following 2 NEW packages are going to be installed:
ImageMagick-devel libbz2-devel
........

Answer 18

You need to run both the command for ubuntu
sudo apt-get install libmagick++-dev
sudo apt-get install imagemagick
Then try to install
gem install rmagick

Answer 19

For mac users, install imagemagick 6 since the newest version 7 isn't compatible.
brew install imagemagick#6
gem install rmagick
The above should work after you uninstall what you already have.

Answer 20

For Fedora 27 I resolved this problem:
sudo dnf install ImageMagick-devel ImageMagick
gem install rmagick