The following quick-fix seems to work for me on a fresh install of i386 Hardy Desktop.
I have the following "magick" components which were installed in the usual way. The key one that really helped was libmagick9-dev. aptitude search -F "%p (%v) %d" '~i' | grep magick imagemagick (7:6.3.7.9.) image manipulation programs libmagick++10 (7:6.3.7.9.) C++ API to the ImageMagick library libmagick10 (7:6.3.7.9.) image manipulation library libmagick9-dev (7:6.3.7.9.) image manipulation library - developme Then I did: cd /tmp wget https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/hardy/+source/librmagick-ruby/1.15.11-1/+files/librmagick-ruby_1.15.11.orig.tar.gz tar -xzf librmagick-ruby_1.15.11.orig.tar.gz cd RMagick-1.15.11/ ./configure ruby setup.rb make install Then it works. I'm not sure if this is the "best" method but I really needed this to "just work" today. -- Can't install librmagick-ruby1.8 on Hardy Heron https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/220811 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs