http://spikef2163i5.cabbycentral.com/ A blog by spikef2163i5 de http://spikef2163i5.cabbycentral.com/2008/09/09/more-installation-fun-with-imagemagick.html When I installed ImageMagick from source to install MagickWand, I broke the perl Image::Magick install.  So that the bugzilla checksetup.pl script broke on the check with the error message: perl: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi/auto/Image/Magick/Magick.so: undefined symbol: MagickCoreGenesis So I needed to back out the manual ImageMagick build, or perl would be broken.  If that meant losing MagickWand, so be it. A search on behalf of “how to uninstall perl modules” revealed some idiotic feedback on the perl.beginners newsgroups to the effect that you’d never desire to uninstall a perl module.  I originally attributed it to Randall Schwartz (author of Learning Perl), but in fact, though he was in the conversation, he only made technical clarification. When an atrocious system like CPAN is your installer (or when you’re using anything that uses autoconf) you WILL desire to uninstall something at some point. Eventually, I decided the only solution I had was to jog ‘make install’ again on the ImageMagick source distribution as well as see what it installed. After a lot of analysis, it turned out to not be as bad as I thought.  I only had to remove two files: # rm -r /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi/Image/Magick* # rm -r /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi/auto/Image/Magick* and  edit perllocal.pod I found a lovely script to clean up perllocal at perlmonks: http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=483020  I then pruned the remaining Image::Magick sections from perllocal.pod as well as reinstalled the ImageMagick-perl-6.2.8 RPM. I haven’t thoroughly tested it yet, but I trust both PerlMagick as well as MagickWand are still working, though I still have the two versions of ImageMagick. I also removed the ImageMagick-devel-6.2.8 RPM. Tue, 09 Sep 2008 23:04:33 -0400 spikef2163i5