Upgrade Ghostscript and Imagemagick on a Centos server

The following script can be used to remove a previous instance of Ghostscript and Imagemagick from a Centos based server and re-install the current versions.


A manual upgrade is required as the Centos repo does not currently have Ghostscript v9 (which is required to use the inkcov device example here).

#!/bin/bash
yum remove imagemagick -y
yum remove ghostscript -y

cd /tmp


wget http://downloads.ghostscript.com/public/ghostscript-9.07.tar.gz
wget ftp://ftp.imagemagick.org/pub/ImageMagick/ImageMagick.tar.gz


tar xf ghostscript-9.07.tar.gz
tar xf ImageMagick.tar.gz


cd /tmp/ghostscript-9.07
autoconf
./configure
make
make install

cd /tmp/ImageMagick
autoconf
./configure --enable-shared \
           --with-modules \
           --with-perl \
           --with-x \
           --with-threads \
           --with-magick_plus_plus \
           --with-gslib \
           --with-wmf \
           --with-lcms \
           --with-rsvg \
           --with-xml \
           --without-dps
make
sudo make install
sudo ldconfig /usr/local/lib




cd /
rm -Rf /tmp/ghostscript-9.07
rm -Rf /tmp/ImageMagick

echo "Done!"