imagemagic in virtualbox

[Harald Schilly]

hi, i got this from the "report a problem" link for a sage 4.2. virtual image:

"command animate doesn't work : message is "ImageMagick not installed"."

Should we keep an eye on installing additional packages? Or should we
include an explanation how to install something additionally?

@olivier: "apt-get install imagemagick" in a terminal might do the trick.

H

[William Stein]

I don't know what to do with this since it is too vague? Are they
talking about the sage_vbox virtual image? Then there is no apt-get,
since that's based on puppy linux... and meant to be very small. I
could build imagemagick and it though, I guess.

William

[jason...@creativetrax.com]

Hmm...It's reasons like this that make me want to vote for staying with
a minimal ubuntu install for the vbox installation.

Jason

[William Stein]

Please go for it! I would love to distribute one. I don't want to
make it myself though.

William

[jason...@creativetrax.com]

I may do one sometime before the end of the year, to set up a Sage
server for our campus.

Thanks,

Jason

[William Stein]

Please note that sage_vbox is not just like one you get by installing
ubuntu into a virtual machine. It uses squashfs and unionfs to
provide a GUI + all of Sage + GCC in only 700MB after the zip archive
is uncompressed. In theory doing something similar with Ubuntu might
be possible. However, naively creating a similarly equipped Ubuntu
image will be around 4GB uncompressed, which is probably not a good
idea for most people.

-- william

[jason...@creativetrax.com]

Okay. Before I start, I'll ping you to get details.

Thanks,

Jason

[Harald Schilly]

On Nov 12, 4:29 pm, Harald Schilly <harald.schi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> hi, i got this from the "report a problem" link for a sage 4.2. virtual image:
>
> "command animate doesn't work : message is "ImageMagick not installed"."
>

Here is Oliver's way how to install it:

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Olivier Marguin <...@univ-lyon1.fr>
Date: Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 16:38
Subject: Re: [sage-windows] imagemagic in virtualbox


That's done, and command 'animate' works well in SAGE 4.2 notebook !

The easiest way is :

1) Within VirtualBox, use the integrated web navigator SeaMonkey to go
at :

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=45981

2) download the two packages :
ImageMagick-6.5.6-10.pet
ImageMagick_DEV-6.5.6-10.pet

and in dialog, choose : open with petget

3) installation is automatic.


Olivier Marguin