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Installing ImageMagick & Ghostscript on Ubuntu
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  1. You have Ghostscript installed, right? Otherwise sudo apt-get install ghostscript
  2. This is important and installs the headers (iapi.h etc) which are required but don't come with the default Ghostscript package: sudo apt-get install libgs-dev
  3. I also needed sudo apt-get install gs-esp
  4. For me the pre compiled version of ImageMagick never accepted Ghostscript, so let's remove it: sudo apt-get --purge remove imagemagick
  5. Get the source of ImageMagick, untar it, cd ImageMagick-xx
  6. ./configure --with-gslib=yes [and what else you need]
  7. Confirm in the output near the bottom gslib yes yes and not gslib yes no
  8. make
  9. make install
  10. Run convert -list configure | grep DELEGATES => DELEGATES bzlib djvu freetype gs jpeg jng jp2 lcms png tiff x11 xml zlib
  11. See the gs in there? You got it!
@DaveCollinsJr
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Thanks! Simply adding "ghostscript" to our Dockerfile apt-get lines solved an issue with Rmagick, ImageMagick, and "Font not found".

@ahmadhasankhan
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Updated gist https://gist.github.com/ahmadhasankhan/3d172098a8890f3a9851ced1690d4df6

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