What is the easiest way to install ImageMagick on CentOS?

[BianchiDude]

What is the easiest way to install ImageMagick on CentOS?

TIA

[serversignature]

RUN


yum install ImageMagick

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[logicsupport]

In a cpanel server you can install imagemagic very easily using

/scripts/installimagemagick

[DomineauX]

yum install ImageMagick will work to install very outdated versions (6.0.7 on Cent4 and 6.2.8 on Cent5).

Using /scripts/installimagemagick will install 6.4.8 which is outdated but only a bit over a year so it is better.

I have suggested a CentOS RPM to ImageMagick.org and they have replied confirming that it would be useful and easy to provide (since they themselves already build one for their own CentOS servers) and that they will add it to their Binary packages in the next day or two.

[WiredTree Joe]

What is the easiest way to install ImageMagick on CentOS?

The easiest way is using /scripts/installimagemagick or using an RPM as already stated, but if you require one of the most recent versions a source install is always an option. I had to do this on my personal cPanel/WHM CentOS 5.x server a few weeks ago.

Use at your own risk!

yum remove ImageMagick
yum install tcl-devel libpng-devel libjpeg-devel ghostscript-devel bzip2-devel freetype-devel libtiff-devel
mkdir /root/imagemagick
cd /root/imagemagick
wget ftp://ftp.imagemagick.org/pub/ImageMagick/ImageMagick.tar.gz
tar xzvf ImageMagick.tar.gz
cd ImageMagick-*
./configure --prefix=/usr/ --with-bzlib=yes --with-fontconfig=yes --with-freetype=yes --with-gslib=yes --with-gvc=yes --with-jpeg=yes --with-jp2=yes --with-png=yes --with-tiff=yes
make
make install

Test your install

[root@rebirth:~]$ whereis convert
convert: /usr/bin/convert /usr/man/man1/convert.1 /usr/share/man/man1/convert.1
[root@rebirth:~]$ convert --version
Version: ImageMagick 6.6.1-2 2010-04-10 Q16 http://www.imagemagick.org
Copyright: Copyright (C) 1999-2010 ImageMagick Studio LLC
Features: OpenMP

You can add in your custom configure options as needed in the configure line above. If you want to "uninstall" your build, you can always run:

cd /root/imagemagick/ImageMagick-*
make uninstall

Following the same steps on a x86_64 CentOS 5 server, I ran into some lib issues and they were fixed with the below commands.

cd /usr/lib64
ln -s ../lib/libMagickCore.so.3 libMagickCore.so.3 
ln -s ../lib/libMagickWand.so.3 libMagickWand.so.3

Your mileage may vary. I consider installing from source to be a last resort to get the versions you require when using CentOS/RHL.

I have suggested a CentOS RPM to ImageMagick.org and they have replied confirming that it would be useful and easy to provide (since they themselves already build one for their own CentOS servers) and that they will add it to their Binary packages in the next day or two.

It would be nice to see some official RPM builds of the most recent versions of IM from ImageMagick.org.

[AndyReed]

It would be nice to see some official RPM builds of the most recent versions of IM from ImageMagick.org.

Although this is not "official" release, it worked on some of our client's servers. CentOS 1386 and x86_64: ftp://ftp.imagemagick.org/pub/ImageMagick/linux/CentOS/

[WiredTree Joe]

Although this is not "official" release, it worked on some of our client's servers. CentOS 1386 and x86_64: ftp://ftp.imagemagick.org/pub/ImageMagick/linux/CentOS/

Awesome! Thanks for sharing this Andy.

[DomineauX]

ImageMagick.org now releases current version CentOS 5 RPM's from:

ImageMagick: Install from Binary Distribution

Alas no CentOS 4 binaries still.


AndyReed: are those Cent 4 or 5 by chance?

[AndyReed]

ImageMagick.org now releases current version CentOS 5 RPM's from:

ImageMagick: Install from Binary Distribution

Alas no CentOS 4 binaries still.

Looking at the list of supported systems, CentOS v4.x is not there. Since your system is not on the list, try installing from source.

Thank you WiredTree Joe :-)

[WiredTree Joe]

I will admit, I have not tried my source install instructions on a CentOS 4.x box. I don't think anyone would run into any issues however.

[dolay]

the easiest way is using /scripts/installimagemagick or using an rpm as already stated, but if you require one of the most recent versions a source install is always an option. I had to do this on my personal cpanel/whm centos 5.x server a few weeks ago.

use at your own risk!

yum remove imagemagick
yum install tcl-devel libpng-devel libjpeg-devel ghostscript-devel bzip2-devel freetype-devel libtiff-devel
mkdir /root/imagemagick
cd /root/imagemagick
wget ftp://ftp.imagemagick.org/pub/imagemagick/imagemagick.tar.gz
tar xzvf imagemagick.tar.gz
cd imagemagick-*
./configure --prefix=/usr/ --with-bzlib=yes --with-fontconfig=yes --with-freetype=yes --with-gslib=yes --with-gvc=yes --with-jpeg=yes --with-jp2=yes --with-png=yes --with-tiff=yes
make
make install

test your install

[root@rebirth:~]$ whereis convert
convert: /usr/bin/convert /usr/man/man1/convert.1 /usr/share/man/man1/convert.1
[root@rebirth:~]$ convert --version
version: Imagemagick 6.6.1-2 2010-04-10 q16 http://www.imagemagick.org
copyright: Copyright (c) 1999-2010 imagemagick studio llc
features: Openmp

you can add in your custom configure options as needed in the configure line above. If you want to "uninstall" your build, you can always run:

cd /root/imagemagick/imagemagick-*
make uninstall

following the same steps on a x86_64 centos 5 server, i ran into some lib issues and they were fixed with the below commands.

cd /usr/lib64
ln -s ../lib/libmagickcore.so.3 libmagickcore.so.3 
ln -s ../lib/libmagickwand.so.3 libmagickwand.so.3

your mileage may vary. I consider installing from source to be a last resort to get the versions you require when using centos/rhl.



It would be nice to see some official rpm builds of the most recent versions of im from imagemagick.org.

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