Updating ImageMagick on Centos5

Here’s what I did:

# DL new version (current versions are here, devel stuff here)
wget "http://www.imagemagick.org/download/linux/CentOS/i386/ImageMagick-devel-6.7.4-0.i386.rpm"
wget "http://www.imagemagick.org/download/linux/CentOS/i386/ImageMagick-6.7.4-0.i386.rpm"

# remove the old version
sudo yum remove ImageMagick-devel ImageMagick

# install some needed deps (YMMV)
sudo yum install libtool-ltdl lzma

# install the new version
sudo rpm -Uvh ImageMagick-6.7.4-0.i386.rpm
sudo rpm -Uvh --nodeps ImageMagick-devel-6.7.4-0.i386.rpm

# test it
convert --version

Better IMHO, than building from source ala this advice.