[Freerealty] Image state of play

[Scott Wang]

I've installed NetPBM on individual webspace in the past, but I like 
it when ImageMagick is already installed.  :)   A modern webhost is 
nuts not to have ImageMagick as part of their services.
 
 - Scott Wang
 http://www.sugarhosting.com


Jake Ortman wrote:
> My host already had ImageMagick installed, so I didn't
> need to do anything to get it to work. I've heard people
> have decent luck getting GD to install in a user
> directory, but I haven't read anything regarding
> ImageMagick.
> 
> -Jake
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: freerealty-admin at lists.rwcinc.net
> [mailto:freerealty-admin at lists.rwcinc.net] On Behalf Of
> Gregg - OzMad
> Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 7:30 AM
> To: freerealty at lists.rwcinc.net
> Subject: [Freerealty] Image state of play
> 
> 
> Hi Patrick and everyone else.
> Wondering how you were getting on with imagemagick and
> netpbm? Are you making them with auto setup of binaries 
> in a seperate folder? The reason I ask, is I see this
> ultimately as the resolution of many problems people have
> with many software scripts, that unless the people
> controlling the server are prepared to install the
> libraries, webmasters are ultimately left out in the
> cold. For example we do not have shell access to our
> servers, only ftp and cpanel. This is normally enough,
> apart from when you need to install additional packages
> to the server. Now in the case of programmes like
> imagemagick and netpbm, I am of the understanding that
> they do not require to be in the root of a server, but
> can be located in other server space, like a subfolder of
> individual webspace, so long as the script doing the
> calling has the correct pointers to the location. Only
> problem now is, most of these packages from what I can
> see, still need shell access to set them up even in other
> locations than the root, because of the way the packages
> are delivered. (requiring makefile) Life would be a lot
> easier if they were available as a simple uploadable
> script or directory.   best regards Tropicaltech
> 
> 
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