[LON-CAPA-admin] CentOS/Red Hat/Scientific Linux 6 -- ImageMagick

[H. K. Ng]

Hi Stuart,

When I did a yum update, it was not successful. Seems like there is a
conflict between existing packages that depend on the older version of
ImageMagick. Part of the message is attached below.

-hk

Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package ImageMagick.x86_64 0:6.5.4.7-7.el6_5 will be updated
--> Processing Dependency: libMagickCore.so.2()(64bit) for package:
inkscape-0.47-6.el6.x86_64
...
...<removed>

--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Package: ImageMagick-c++-6.5.4.7-7.el6_5.x86_64 (@updates)
           Requires: libMagickCore.so.2()(64bit)
           Removing: ImageMagick-6.5.4.7-7.el6_5.x86_64 (@updates)
               libMagickCore.so.2()(64bit)
           Updated By: ImageMagick-6.8.9-7.centos6.lc.x86_64
(loncapa-updates-basearch)
               Not found
Error: Package: inkscape-0.47-6.el6.x86_64 (@base/$releasever)
           Requires: libMagickCore.so.2()(64bit)
           Removing: ImageMagick-6.5.4.7-7.el6_5.x86_64 (@updates)
               libMagickCore.so.2()(64bit)
           Updated By: ImageMagick-6.8.9-7.centos6.lc.x86_64
(loncapa-updates-basearch)
               Not found
Error: Package: ImageMagick-c++-6.5.4.7-7.el6_5.x86_64 (@updates)
           Requires: libMagickWand.so.2()(64bit)
           Removing: ImageMagick-6.5.4.7-7.el6_5.x86_64 (@updates)
               libMagickWand.so.2()(64bit)
           Updated By: ImageMagick-6.8.9-7.centos6.lc.x86_64
(loncapa-updates-basearch)
               Not found
 You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
 You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest

On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 11:18 AM, Stuart Raeburn <raeburn at msu.edu> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Packages for ImageMagick and ImageMagick-perl which contain newer
> versions than those present in the distribution's standard
> repositories have been added to LON-CAPA's own yum repositories for
> CentOS, Red Hat, and Scientific Linux 6 (both 64 bit and 32 bit
> architectures).
>
> When the CHECKRPMS script (run by cron on alternate nights) next runs
> it will advise using yum to update ImageMagick and ImageMagick-perl
> from 6.5.4.7-7.el6 to 6.8.9-7.dist6.lc (where dist = centos, rhel, or
> sl).
>
> The newer packages create valid postscript when generating PDF
> printouts in LON-CAPA for resources containing certain types of jpeg
> images (e.g., see
> http://mail.lon-capa.org/pipermail/lon-capa-users/2015-June/004878.html
> ).
>
> ImageMagick for LON-CAPA servers running other distros: CentOS 5 or 7,
> Ubuntu 12 or 14, or SLES11 do not need updating, as they already
> support printout generation for resources of this type.
>
> In the case of CentOS/Red Hat/Scientific Linux 5, updated ImageMagick
> rpms which were built previously (June 2014 -- rev. 6.8.8.2) to
> address a different issue to do with conversion of 8-bit alpha channel
> png files (see bug 6652 --
> http://bugs.loncapa.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6652#c9) can also support
> conversion of these jpeg images.
>
> At least one other distro -- Ubuntu 10 LTS -- needs a newer version of
> ImageMagick to support printout generation for resources containing
> these types of jpeg images.  However, 10.04 LTS reached end of life on
> April 30, 2015, so any LON-CAPA domains running servers still using it
> should consider upgrading to either Ubuntu 12 LTS or 14 LTS.
>
>
> Stuart Raeburn
> LON-CAPA Academic Consortium
>
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