Installing Image::Magick

[vicos]

WHM 11.28.87
REDHAT Enterprise 5.6 i686 standard

Tried installing Image::Magick via WHM Perl module installer. Gave quite a few errors and said it was not possible to install.

I `assume` that maybe ImageMagick is not installed on the server.

There are a few threads here about Image::Magick, but seeing as how the most recent one is 2007, I wanted to ask and see what the current preferred/supported method is to install Image::Magick.

TIA!

[bhd]

I installed it today actually on a CentOS 64 machine

/scripts/installimagemagick

no problems at all.

[vicos]

wow, can't believe I couldn't find that.

Since it is in /scripts/, gotta be the supported way to do it.

Many thanks!

P.S. More here: Install ImageMagick and Imagick on Cpanel Server | Linux Sysadmin Blog

he first recommends:

Check first if it’s installed:
/scripts/checkimagemagick

[bhd]

I normally just run

which convert

to see if it's already there.

[vicos]

Mission accomplished, it appears. I am however, astonished at how many little steps that script had to take to install a few programs whose simple mission it is to manipulate images. :lol:

[MattLee]

Hello,

Just to confirm what you guys already found out

The supported way to install it is:
/scripts/installimagemagick

[sneader]

In looking at one of our servers, ImageMagick appears to be installed correctly. /scripts/checkimagemagick shows "OK". However, when viewing php.ini via a phpinfo.php page, there is no "imagick" section... so the php module is not enabled.

Is there a supported way to add the php module? I don't see it as an option under the "Exhaustive Options" list under EasyApache. I *do* see "imagick 3.1.0b1 beta" as an option under Module Installers > PHP Pecl.

??

- Scott

[cPanelTristan]

You would install it using Pecl for PHP for the module.

[sneader]

Thanks, Tristan. I gave it a go via PHP Pecl. It says it was successful, but it's not showing in phpinfo. Here's the end to the install log file.. notice the last line:

Build process completed successfully
Installing '/usr/include/php/ext/imagick/php_imagick.h'
Installing '/usr/include/php/ext/imagick/php_imagick_defs.h'
Installing '/usr/include/php/ext/imagick/php_imagick_shared.h'
Installing '/usr/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20090626/imagick.so'
install ok: channel://pecl.php.net/imagick-3.0.1
Extension imagick enabled in php.ini
The imagick.so object is not in /usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20090626

I restarted Apache for good measure, but no change to phpinfo. Ideas?

- Scott

[cPanelTristan]

Could you try the steps noted here?

http://forums.cpanel.net/f5/php-pecl...ls-198432.html

It sounds like it went into the wrong directory.

[sneader]

Thanks, Tristan! That was the fix. The forum above mentions creating a symlink for memcache.so. I had to create one, instead, for imagick.so:

cd /usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20090626
ln -s /usr/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20090626/imagick.so

But it worked great! imagick now shows up in phpinfo!

Thanks man!

- Scott

[Data 1]

I know this is an old thread, but I can't get it to install and it did just fine for the past 11 servers. Same setup on all of them, the only thing I noticed different this time was on the WHM load it displayed text instead of an hour of little plus signs. (why the change?)

In the past the /scripts/installimagemagick worked 100% for me.

What clues should I be giving?

Thanks-

[Data 1]

Successfully installed Image-Magick-6.72
1 distribution installed
&Image::Magick::constant not defined. The required ImageMagick libraries are not installed or not installed properly.
END failed--call queue aborted.
ImageMagick install failed

[cPanelTristan]

We have a case (52938) opened about that issue. Please try the following:

vi /scripts/checkimagemagick

In that file change this line:

my $maxmem = ( 128 * ( 1024 * 1024 ) );

To this:

my $maxmem = ( 256 * ( 1024 * 1024 ) );

While /scripts/installimagemagick does have enough memory to install (it uses 256 for that line), the check script that runs at the end only has 128 listed and fails on the check due to the higher memory requirements. You should be able to bypass that check erroneously failing by bumping up the memory.

[Data 1]

Hi,

Didn't work at 256. Should I set it higher? Server has 12G.

I'm about 2 days late on deploying this one, right now it is empty so if there is something radical to try I would be willing. The guys gallery wants imagemagick so I can't put him on there till it works