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Image::Magick is gone from Perl CPAN - where is it?
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I can't find the Perl module Image::Magick anywhere. It is gone from CPAN.

  • What happened to it?
  • Where can I get it?
  • Is there a problem with CPAN, or with the module?
Cuzco answered 4/10, 2023 at 4:1 Comment(6)
Was it ever on cpan? imagemagick.org/script/perl-magick.php – Enrika
Closest is probably metacpan.org/pod/Alien::ImageMagick – Enrika
Yes, it was. There are many references to it, and there are other modules which depend upon it and therefore will not install without it. Strange. I installed Imager instead...but I still don't think it does everything I need. The actual ImageMagick webpage refers to the PerlMagick module, but that links straight back to the metacpan page for Image::Magick...which does not exist anymore... – Cuzco
Will look at Alien::ImageMagick as you suggest. – Cuzco
Alien:: modules usually covers finding/installing libraries. They don't tend to provide an interface to the library. – Herwig
@Cuzco - it was gone but seems to be back metacpan.org/pod/Image::Magick – Point
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My guess is that it's an indexing error on MetaCPAN. - this is wrong, see my update below

You can see various versions of the distribution (which seems to have been renamed from PerlMagick to Image::Magick in 2021) on CPAN here.

Update: The MetaCPAN advice on missing modules suggests looking to see if the module is in 02packages.details.txt - which it isn't. So the next step is to contact the author to see if they know anything. Maybe start by raising a ticket in RT.

Update 2: I started a conversation about this on the Perl Community FB group, which led to a discussion on #p5p on IRC. We seem to be reaching a consensus that it was some kind of PAUSE error (probably on the upload of the most recent version).

14:33 < rjbs> This sounds like some kind of nasty transactionality failure

Update 3: Another release seems to have fixed the problem. It's there now:

Precipitate answered 4/10, 2023 at 8:20 Comment(1)
Thx, yes, I took a look at 02packages.details.txt too and saw it was not there. Ticket is a logical next step. – Cuzco
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Old versions can be found on the BackPAN. I had to use the Wayback Machine to find the author but at least the distributions were saved!

Anlace answered 4/10, 2023 at 10:12 Comment(0)
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It was originally released in the PerlMagick distribution, which was then renamed to Image-Magick. Recent uploads haven't included a metadata file (META.yml or META.json) which is why PAUSE hasn't included it in the CPAN Index. I've reported this and it will apparently be fixed soon.

UPDATE 2023-10-11

The indexing issue has now been fixed. From a quick play with the latest release, it has a number of build issues, so if someone would like to work out what needs fixing on that front and add github issues, I'm sure that would be appreciated.

Laban answered 9/10, 2023 at 17:1 Comment(1)
Seems like a new version was recently uploaded here: metacpan.org/pod/Image::Magick – Bollworm
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My guess is that it's an indexing error on MetaCPAN. - this is wrong, see my update below

You can see various versions of the distribution (which seems to have been renamed from PerlMagick to Image::Magick in 2021) on CPAN here.

Update: The MetaCPAN advice on missing modules suggests looking to see if the module is in 02packages.details.txt - which it isn't. So the next step is to contact the author to see if they know anything. Maybe start by raising a ticket in RT.

Update 2: I started a conversation about this on the Perl Community FB group, which led to a discussion on #p5p on IRC. We seem to be reaching a consensus that it was some kind of PAUSE error (probably on the upload of the most recent version).

14:33 < rjbs> This sounds like some kind of nasty transactionality failure

Update 3: Another release seems to have fixed the problem. It's there now:

Precipitate answered 4/10, 2023 at 8:20 Comment(1)
Thx, yes, I took a look at 02packages.details.txt too and saw it was not there. Ticket is a logical next step. – Cuzco
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Where can I get it?

On Linux you can install from source, i.e. from GitHub like this:

$ ./configure --with-perl=/home/hakon/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.38.0/bin/perl --prefix=/opt/image-magick
$ make
$ sudo make install
Cybill answered 4/10, 2023 at 7:47 Comment(2)
Thanks, but I am running perl on Win11. – Cuzco
@Cuzco I added a question for Strawberry Perl here: github.com/StrawberryPerl/Perl-Dist-Strawberry/issues/138 – Bollworm
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If in Win11 you have the option to run Perl in WSL (the Ubuntu or perhaps Debian variant) you can still install it with sudo apt install libimage-magick-perl there.

Point answered 4/10, 2023 at 8:40 Comment(5)
Ah yes, I suppose I could....thx. – Cuzco
My only question is whether the instance installed under WSL is the same instance as the instance used under Windows... – Cuzco
@skeetastax: No, it's not. And even if you arranged for your Windows Perl to see the WSL CPAN modules, it wouldn't work because they wouldn't be binary compatible. – Precipitate
I suspected that may be the case. Ta – Cuzco
If you so far have used StrawberryPerl or ActivePerl for Windows (or something similar) then WSL will have its own and a different install of Perl. Most probably a different version of Perl too. It needs it's own packages installed. Some pure perl modules could use the same installs I guess by finding and using the right use lib ... or setting PERLLIB but I wouldn't do that. – Point

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