Cannot install older version of ImageMagick via Ho

Question

I need to install ImageMagick 6.5.8 (or earlier might do), but even when I checkout an earlier commit, it installs the latest version (6.6.9-4). I did this:

$ git checkout -b im-6.5.6 ff414bb   

(then confirmed that the working tree shows the correct version of imagemagick.rb, with @url = a .tar of version 6.5.6-5)

$ brew install imagemagick 

(and it says Checking out tag 6.6.9-4 and then proceeds to install that version)

Any help would be appreciated. Thx.

Answer 1

Hope you managed to find a solution, if not. Heres one that worked for me on another related issue.

brew install https://github.com/adamv/homebrew-alt/raw/master/versions/imagemagick-ruby186.rb

This will install ImageMagic 6.5.9-8