System ImageMagick `convert` predominates over MacPorts `convert`

[sam.kuper@…]

Here is an abbreviated transcript of my experience, from before to after installing ImageMagick via MacPorts:

$ which convert
/usr/local/bin/convert
$ which mogrify
$ mogrify
-bash: mogrify: command not found
$ sudo port install imagemagick
[... many lines removed for conciseness, but no errors reported ...]
$ which mogrify
/opt/local/bin/mogrify
$ which convert
/usr/local/bin/convert

And here is an abbreviated transcript of my expected experience:

$ which convert
/usr/local/bin/convert
$ which mogrify
$ mogrify
-bash: mogrify: command not found
$ sudo port install imagemagick
[... many lines removed for conciseness, but no errors reported ...]
$ which mogrify
/opt/local/bin/mogrify
$ which convert
/opt/local/bin/convert

Is this a genuine bug, or should I adjust my expectations? Either way, how can I best make /opt/local/bin/convert become the default convert command?

NB. ​http://www.imagemagick.org/script/binary-releases.php#macosx does seem to give the impression that sudo port install is all that's needed in order to make the MacPorts port of ImageMagick fully ready for use.

[sam.kuper@…]

s/the impression that sudo port install is all that's needed/the impression that sudo port install imagemagick is all that's needed

[sam.kuper@…]

Cc Me!

[danielluke (Daniel J. Luke)]

/usr/local/bin/convert is something that you installed (outside of MacPorts).

If you want /opt/local to be searched before /usr/local you can adjust your shell's $PATH.

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

In your transcript it looks like you just needed to run hash -r (or the equivalent for your shell). Starting a new shell would also achieve the same.

[sam.kuper@…]

Replying to jmr@…:

In your transcript it looks like you just needed to run hash -r (or the equivalent for your shell). Starting a new shell would also achieve the same.

Please could you explain what you mean by this?

Incidentally, I now agree that I was mistaken in filing a bug against the ImageMagick port. See ​http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-users/2011-September/025653.html