[Fink-users] How to install an older ImageMagick version?

[Peter D. <Pet...@Fr...>]

Part of my efforts with ImageMagick is that the recent versions of ImageMagick on G4 hardware with Mac OS X 10.5.8 and 10.4.11 produce errors in handling SVG images (they become black&white, maybe transparency needed; my test image is etc/images/splash.svg from GNU Emacs). Since up-to-date version 6.8.1-3 is the same, I'd like to test older versions of ImageMagick, 6.4.1 and 6.3.5. 6.4.1-1018 already built on Tiger – but how can install the binaries? They're in a file imagemagick_6.4.1-1018.deb… 'fink install imagemagick' would, of course, install the fowl ImageMagick 6.8.1-3…

Probably dpkg-deb -x can perform the job – but can it also remove the files? I need a way to install and de-install the software.

An option would be to build local imagemagick1 and imagemagick10 packages…

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  Pete

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