ImageMagick Install problems

Hey guys,

I'm at the part in the install where the install script would like to see ImageMagick.  I downloaded the archive from http://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php, ftp-ed the archive to the server, ran configure, and among the errors that I'm seeing is that there's no /usr/local/bin.  I went and CREATED a /usr/local/bin and reran configure for ImageMagick but no dice.

I suspect that as I'm using a virtual private server, and have been doing most of my work as root, I've failed to set things up correctly to support users.  I had to create a user to get the initial seed database in mySQL but I didn't do much by way of actually setting things up other than create a /home/username directory, and stuff a .bashrc file in there.

Does anyone have a theory as to why ImageMagick's not installing?

I tried to use make also and that failed with 2 errors (not sure where the errorlog is for failed make attempts).

The errorlog for configure seems to indicate that I don't have confdefs.h, which I'm guessing leades to a missing conftest.c in lots of places.  Not sure what to do about it though.

It looks as though the easy way out would be to rebuild PHP with the GD library.  I'm going to continue to doink with ImageMagick for a bit before I do that as I'm not sure that I want to try and figure out the intracacies of doing a PHP build/install/configure sequence just yet.  Might be digging the hole just a bit deeper.....

Well, I've been trying to do it the hard way.  It turns out that there's an RPM package for ImageMagick so I was able to just run yum install.  The files are still not in the directories that Dolphin seems to want them though so I'm trying to figure out how to fix that without breaking something else.

OK, I just went and manually created the directories:

/usr/local/bin/mogrify

/usr/local/bin/convert

/usr/local/bin/composit

Feels wrong somehow.

I also ran yum install php.gd to try and get rid of the red flags about "GD library NOT installed" but it's not being recognized by the install script.