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How to Install The Newest ImageMagick in Centos

August 29, 2013

For whatever reason I always had trouble installing the ImageMagick RPM’s from their website. So when I got a good guide written down I figured Id share it with everyone. Here’s how to install the latest and greatest ImagickMagic rpm’s to Centos 5 and Centos 6 and should be compatible with most cpanel systems!

Prerequisites

Lets download all of the development tools and prerequisites

yum -y install gcc gcc-c++ make
yum -y install rpmdevtool libtool-ltdl-devel freetype-devel ghostscript-devel libwmf-devel lcms-devel bzip2-devel librsvg2 librsvg2-devel libtool-ltdl-devel autotrace-devel fftw3-devel libtiff-devel giflib-devel libXt-devel xz-devel

The we’ll download all the rpms:

#ImageMagick
wget -rnd ftp://ftp.imagemagick.org/pub/ImageMagick/linux/CentOS/$(uname -i)/

#lifttw3 for  CentOS 5 Only
if [ "$(cat /etc/redhat-release | cut -d' ' -f3 | cut -d'.' -f1)" == 5 ]
then
    wget -rnd http://pkgs.repoforge.org/fftw3/fftw3-3.1.1-1.el5.rf.$(uname -i).rpm
    wget -rnd http://pkgs.repoforge.org/fftw3/fftw3-devel-3.1.1-1.el5.rf.$(uname -i).rpm
fi

#And Djvulibre
wget http://pkgs.repoforge.org/djvulibre/djvulibre-devel-3.5.22-1.el5.rf.$(uname -i).rpm
wget http://pkgs.repoforge.org/djvulibre/djvulibre-3.5.22-1.el5.rf.$(uname -i).rpm

We need to copy libltdl to livltdl.so.3. You’ll get an error on Centos 5 most likely. You can ignore it if you do.

if [ "$(uname -i)" == "x86_64" ]
then
    cp /usr/lib64/libltdl.so /usr/lib64/libltdl.so.3
else
    cp /usr/lib/libltdl.so /usr/lib/libltdl.so.3
fi

Finally, install the RPMs…

rpm -Uvh *.rpm --nodeps --force

And verify!

[root@drop1 imagemagick]# convert --version
Version: ImageMagick 6.8.6-9 2013-08-25 Q16 http://www.imagemagick.org
Copyright: Copyright (C) 1999-2013 ImageMagick Studio LLCFeatures: DPC OpenMP
Delegates: bzlib cairo djvu fftw fontconfig freetype gslib jng jp2 jpeg lcms ltdl lzma openexr png ps png rsvg tiff webp wmf x xml zlib

You can also give it a test by creating a sample image from text:

convert -background 'rgb(3,27,5)' -fill white -font Helvetica-Bold -size 250x100  -pointsize 42 -gravity center label:'Linux Rulez!!' linux.gif

ImageMagick PHP Extension

You may also need to install the ImageMagick PHP Extension and its just as annoying. Lets get started, we need to create some folders and link some files:

mkdir -p $(MagickWand-config --prefix)/include/ImageMagick/
ln -s /usr/include/ImageMagick-6/wand $(MagickWand-config --prefix)/include/ImageMagick/wand

Download the file:

cd /root
wget http://pecl.php.net/get/imagick-3.1.0RC2.tgz
tar xzf imagick-3.1.0RC2.tgz
cd imagick-3.1.0RC2

And install:

phpize
./configure PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/
make
make install

Add it to the php.ini:

echo "extension=imagick.so;" >> /usr/local/lib/php.ini

And verify!!

[root@drop1 ~]# php -i | grep imagick
imagick
imagick module => enabled
imagick module version => 3.1.0RC2
imagick classes => Imagick, ImagickDraw, ImagickPixel, ImagickPixelIterator
imagick.locale_fix => 0 => 0
imagick.progress_monitor => 0 => 0