Installing imagemagick, without SSH access...

[pok125]

... Is this possible? Been doing my head in all night, and Mr Google has been no help at all

 

[Beansprout]

http://imagemagick.linux-mirror.org/download/binaries/ may work

 

[pok125]

Cheers, Im getting way out of my depth here (have no idea what I'm talking about really)... Wouldn't I still need SSH access to unzip/install them?

 

[Augmented]

I think what Beansprout's suggesting is download the precompiled/binary package of Imagmagick i.e. ImageMagick-i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar.gz, unzip on your local machine and upload the extracted files to your host via FTP. Best to place them somewhere outside of the document root (not in public_html/ or www/).

The binary package may or may not include everything the various Imagemagick functions require. If it does, then you should be able to reference the uploaded executables in your scripts - if you uploaded to /home/pok125/imagemagick, then you can reference the convert function (for example) in your script as /home/pok125/imagemagick/bin/convert. Or you can set relevant environment variables as outlined here.

As Beansprout says, it may work, or it may not .

 

[pok125]

Ah right I see, cheers guys, I'll give it a try

 

[Beansprout]

What access do you have to the server, and what environment are you in? The server administrators should be happy to setup Imagemagick for you in most cases