CentOS 4 - (RHEL 4 clone) I have ImageMagick and ImageMagick-development installed as well as libjpeg and libjpeg-devel installed and think that I have the necessary requirements in place. Installing the gem... gem install rmagick results in...(gem_make.out) ruby gem_config.rb install rmagick sh configure Configuring RMagick 1.12.0 checking for gcc... gcc checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of executables... checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed checking for ruby... /usr/bin/ruby checking for Magick-config... Magick-config checking for InitializeMagick in -lMagick... no RMagick configuration failed with status 1. trying to install from tarball does much the same... I had no such problems on Fedora Core 5 FC-5 ImageMagick-6.2.5.4... RHEL 4 ImageMagick-6.2.3.0... is this my problem? suggestions? Craig