Install ImageMagick from source on Amazon Linux

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.

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

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.