[LON-CAPA-admin] CentOS/Red Hat/Scientific Linux 6 -- ImageMagick
H. K. Ng
hkng at fsu.edu
Mon Jun 29 13:07:26 EDT 2015
Thanks Stuart for the fix.
It appears that there may be another problem (not sure if it is related).
Now the randomlabel images do not show up. See
/res/fsu/PhysicsLabs/PHY2048L/Torques/torques.problem
There are 4 randomlabel images and non of them show up.
Regards,
-hk
On Sat, Jun 27, 2015 at 12:42 PM, Stuart Raeburn <raeburn at msu.edu> wrote:
> Hi H.K.,
>
> > 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.
>
> The server/VM for which you attempted to update ImageMagick had
> inkscape installed, and the inkscape package had been built with a
> specific version of
> ImageMagick-c++-devel (6.5.4.7-7), so had a it dependency on the same
> version of ImageMagick-c++.
>
> As LON-CAPA does not require inkscape one solution would be to simply
> remove it using: yum remove inkscape
>
> Alternatively, if you want to retain inkscape, you will need to update
> inkscape to a version built with ImageMagick-c++-devel-6.8.9.
>
> Accordingly, I have added the ImageMagick-c++-devel, ImageMagick-c++,
> and ImageMagick-devel packages for 6.8.9-7.1.centos6.lc, and also
> inkscape-0.47-6.1.centos6.lc packages to the LON-CAPA yum repositories
> for CentOS 6.
>
> yum clean all
> yum update
>
> should now be successful, unless you have other packages installed
> which were also built with ImageMagick-c++-devel.
>
> Notes:
>
> 1. There was a problem building ImageMagick-devel using the orginal
> .spec file for ImageMagick, so I fixed it and replaced the ImageMagick
> 6.8.9-7.centos6.lc packages added yesterday with ImageMagick
> 6.8.9-7.1.centos6.lc packages built today.
>
> 2. The inkscape package is not installed if you set up a LON-CAPA
> instance using the recommended minimal install of Linux, followed by
> installation of the LONCAPA-prerequisites rpm.
>
> 3. ImageMagick-c++, ImageMagick-c++-devel, ImageMagick-devel, and
> inkscape-0.47-6.1 packages have also been added to the LON-CAPA yum
> repositories for Red Hat 6 and Scientific Linux 6.
>
>
> Stuart Raeburn
> LON-CAPA Academic Consortium
>
>
> Quoting "H. K. Ng" <hkng at fsu.edu>:
>
> > 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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