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Install ImageMagick from source on Amazon Linux
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ImageMagick-Amazon-Linux.md

I needed a newer version of ImageMagick than is available on the yum packages on Amazon Linux. I tried using the remi repo but it failed with dependency errors. Here is what I did to install ImageMagick with support for PNG, JPG, and TIFF.

download the most recent package

wget http://www.imagemagick.org/download/ImageMagick.tar.gz

uncomress the package

tar -vxf ImageMagick.tar.gz

install the devel packages for png, jpg, tiff. these are dependencies of ImageMagick

sudo yum -y install libpng-devel libjpeg-devel libtiff-devel

configure ImageMagick without X11. this is a server without a display (headless) so we don't need X11

cd ImageMagick
./configure --without-x
make && make install

mission complete.

@samsamm777
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This worked perfectly! Thanks!

@ARolek
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ARolek commented Jul 10, 2014

@samsamm777 glad it could help. I just referenced it today again. I need to write more stuff down ;-)

@danielroy
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Thanks, this saved me so much pain!

@Ravean
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Ravean commented Mar 6, 2015

This almost worked as described but I had to do:

make
sudo make install

However I ran into problems when trying to use imagemagick with php. I was getting the following errors in the /var/log/httpd/error_log after restarting apache:

PHP Warning:  PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/lib64/php/modules/imagick.so' - libMagickWand.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory in Unknown on line 0

PHP Warning:  PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/lib64/php/modules/imagick.so' - libMagickCore.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory in Unknown on line 0

ldd on imagick.so showed:

ldd imagick.so
        libMagickWand.so.5 => not found
        libMagickCore.so.5 => not found

I had to create a symlink to like this to the libMagick files:

sudo ln -s /usr/local/lib/libMagickCore-6.Q16.so.2.0.0 libMagickCore.so.5
sudo ln -s /usr/local/lib/libMagickWand-6.Q16.so.2.0.0 libMagickWand.so.5

Everything seems to be working now. Hope this helps someone else with the same problem.
Thanks!

@kendantinio
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Got this problem on live amazon ec2 linux

PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/lib64/php/5.6/modules/imagick.so' - /usr/lib64/php/5.6/modules/imagick.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory in Unknown on line 0
PHP Fatal error: Class 'Imagick' not found in /var/www/html/test/imagick/index.php on line 2

@kendantinio
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Got this problem on live amazon ec2 linux

PHP Fatal error: Class 'Imagick' not found in /var/www/html/test/imagick/index.php on line 2

Using this code
$imagick = new Imagick();
var_dump($imagick);
$imagick->readImage('test.pdf');
$imagick->writeImages('testone.jpg', false);
echo 'Aw';

@mariosanchez23
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I tried in a clean aws machine and it didn't work.
I needed to use curl instead of wget
and the run
yum groupinstall "Development tools"

because I was getting errors calling the ./configure --without-x
The error was>
configure: error: in `/home/ec2-user/ImageMagick-7.0.1-5':
configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH

at last I needed to do sudo for make && make install

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gweiss27 commented Jun 8, 2016

This was a godsend! Thank You!!!! (I also had to sudo pretty much everything). I chose to installed the latest 6.9.4-8 version and then uninstalled and reinstalled imagick (and restarted apache). Now it seems like I'm all upgraded!

Love smart people who help others out! :)

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AljoSt commented Jun 30, 2016

Thanks!

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pdbreen commented Sep 14, 2016 •
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Thanks. This got me most of the way there for an upgrade on ec2 running php70! Since I was after webp support, I also installed the libwebp-devel (and giflib-devel for good measure). And, when done, I had to reinstall imagick via pecl instead of yum. Complete steps for me ended up being this:

sudo yum install libpng-devel libjpeg-devel libtiff-devel libwebp-devel giflib-devel

cd
wget http://www.imagemagick.org/download/ImageMagick.tar.gz
tar -vxf ImageMagick.tar.gz
cd ImageMagick-7.0.3-0/
./configure --without-x
make
sudo make install

sudo service nginx stop
sudo service php-fpm stop

sudo yum install php70-devel
sudo pecl install imagick

php -v

sudo service php-fpm start
sudo service nginx start

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Said210 commented Sep 12, 2017

Nice, thank you (y)

@p-j-vlad
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p-j-vlad commented Nov 25, 2017 •
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I'm running Amazon EC2 with AWS Linux on it. I tired the instructions from pdbreen and I'm getting an error right after executing ./configure:
./configure --without-x

Right after that I get this error:
configure: error: in `/var/www/html/ImageMagick-7.0.7-11':
configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH

Adding the compiler fixed the issue:
yum install gcc gcc-c++ autoconf automake

Thanks.
PV.

@Rybots
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Rybots commented Jul 15, 2018

It helps me a lot.! You're out of this world! Thanks!!!!!!!

@wassgha
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wassgha commented Aug 2, 2018

If it complains about "delegates library support not built-in" (freefont or others), install ImageMagick-devel before executing sudo make :

sudo yum install ImageMagick-devel

@raj-chef
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If anyone doesn't wanna compile then you can follow this process to install it via rpm packages.

sudo yum install libpng-devel libjpeg-devel libtiff-devel libwebp-devel giflib-devel

Download these files

sudo yum install ImageMagick-c++-devel-7.0.10-0.x86_64.rpm ImageMagick-c++-7.0.10-0.x86_64.rpm ImageMagick-devel-7.0.10-0.x86_64.rpm ImageMagick-7.0.10-0.x86_64.rpm ImageMagick-libs-7.0.10-0.x86_64.rpm fribidi-1.0.2-1.el7.x86_64.rpm fribidi-devel-1.0.2-1.el7.x86_64.rpm

files can be downloaded from here
https://imagemagick.org/download/linux/CentOS/x86_64/
https://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=fribidi*&submit=Search+...&system=centos&arch=

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igal1c0de4n commented Feb 25, 2021 •
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@raj-chef I tried the approach you mentioned. Looks like the binaries available are one version up.
On my end the rpms are not installing. I get the error below. Ideas?

$ uname -a
Linux ip-<some ip addr>.amzn1.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Jan 10 10:40:32 UTC 2021 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

$ sudo yum install ImageMagick-libs-7.0.11-1.x86_64.rpm
...
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Package: ImageMagick-libs-7.0.11-1.x86_64 (/ImageMagick-libs-7.0.11-1.x86_64)
           Requires: libIlmImf-2_2.so.22()(64bit)
Error: Package: ImageMagick-libs-7.0.11-1.x86_64 (/ImageMagick-libs-7.0.11-1.x86_64)
           Requires: libwebp.so.7()(64bit)
Error: Package: ImageMagick-libs-7.0.11-1.x86_64 (/ImageMagick-libs-7.0.11-1.x86_64)
           Requires: libwebpmux.so.3()(64bit)
Error: Package: ImageMagick-libs-7.0.11-1.x86_64 (/ImageMagick-libs-7.0.11-1.x86_64)
           Requires: libpng16.so.16()(64bit)
Error: Package: ImageMagick-libs-7.0.11-1.x86_64 (/ImageMagick-libs-7.0.11-1.x86_64)
           Requires: libgs.so.9()(64bit)
Error: Package: ImageMagick-libs-7.0.11-1.x86_64 (/ImageMagick-libs-7.0.11-1.x86_64)
           Requires: libraqm.so.0()(64bit)
Error: Package: ImageMagick-libs-7.0.11-1.x86_64 (/ImageMagick-libs-7.0.11-1.x86_64)
           Requires: libIex-2_2.so.12()(64bit)
Error: Package: ImageMagick-libs-7.0.11-1.x86_64 (/ImageMagick-libs-7.0.11-1.x86_64)
           Requires: libIlmThread-2_2.so.12()(64bit)
Error: Package: ImageMagick-libs-7.0.11-1.x86_64 (/ImageMagick-libs-7.0.11-1.x86_64)
           Requires: libpng16.so.16(PNG16_0)(64bit)
Error: Package: ImageMagick-libs-7.0.11-1.x86_64 (/ImageMagick-libs-7.0.11-1.x86_64)
           Requires: libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0()(64bit)
Error: Package: ImageMagick-libs-7.0.11-1.x86_64 (/ImageMagick-libs-7.0.11-1.x86_64)
           Requires: libHalf.so.12()(64bit)
Error: Package: ImageMagick-libs-7.0.11-1.x86_64 (/ImageMagick-libs-7.0.11-1.x86_64)
           Requires: libImath-2_2.so.12()(64bit)
Error: Package: ImageMagick-libs-7.0.11-1.x86_64 (/ImageMagick-libs-7.0.11-1.x86_64)
           Requires: librsvg-2.so.2()(64bit)
Error: Package: ImageMagick-libs-7.0.11-1.x86_64 (/ImageMagick-libs-7.0.11-1.x86_64)
           Requires: libraw_r.so.19()(64bit)
Error: Package: ImageMagick-libs-7.0.11-1.x86_64 (/ImageMagick-libs-7.0.11-1.x86_64)
           Requires: libIexMath-2_2.so.12()(64bit)
Error: Package: ImageMagick-libs-7.0.11-1.x86_64 (/ImageMagick-libs-7.0.11-1.x86_64)
           Requires: libwebpdemux.so.2()(64bit)
Error: Package: ImageMagick-libs-7.0.11-1.x86_64 (/ImageMagick-libs-7.0.11-1.x86_64)
           Requires: libopenjp2.so.7()(64bit)
 You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
 You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest

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ARolek commented Feb 26, 2021

I'm just amazed that this post from 7 years ago is still alive. Thanks for everyone continuing to post updated solutions.

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igal1c0de4n commented Mar 1, 2021 •
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Not exactly helping people who insist on ImageMagick, but still may help someone reaching this thread:

I use GraphicsMagick npm pkg with ImageMagick for resizing and converting images in Elastic Beanstalk nodejs.

Locally on macos the code successfully resizes/converts jpg, png, webp formats.

Same code deployed on AWS Elastic Beanstalk: JPEG/PNG formats convert successfully, however WEBP images are identified as PAM images, essentially breaking the ability to resize/convert them.

I consulted AWS support and eventually discovered a work around: dropping GM's ImageMagick mode .subClass({imageMagick: true} and not installing ImageMagick. After that, my nodejs instance worked correctly will the mentioned image formats.

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