MacOS – Failed to install ghostscript, during Imagemagick installation

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I'm kinda new to those CLI installations so I don't know exactly what I'm doing I'm just following the installation steps of the guide:

I want to install Imagemagick on my Mac 10.5.8:

I typed ´sudo port install imagemagick´ and I got this error in return:

localhost:~ giorgio$ sudo port install imagemagick
--->  Computing dependencies for imagemagick
--->  Dependencies to be installed: ghostscript liblzma urw-fonts webp
--->  Building ghostscript
Error: Target org.macports.build returned: shell command failed (see log for details)
Error: Failed to install ghostscript
Log for ghostscript is at: /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_print_ghostscript/ghostscript/main.log
Error: The following dependencies were not installed: ghostscript liblzma urw-fonts webp
Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
To report a bug, see <http://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets>

I've also tried to look inside the main.log file, but I couldn't understand anything with my knowledges!
I've pasted it here with the hope that you can help me:
http://pastebin.com/YeAGJQkF

Thanks in advance!
Giorgio

Best Answer

:debug:main Privilege de-escalation not attempted as not running as root.

It seems from the error log that you aren't running as root even though you used sudo. You need to make sure you're in an admin account then use sudo port install imagemagick.