Install ImageMagick with JPG, PNG and TIFF Delegates - Ubuntu (20.04)

imagemagick-ubuntu.txt

#These are the steps required in order to Install ImageMagick with JPG, PNG and TIFF delegates.

sudo apt-get update 

#Install Build-Essential in order to configure and make the final Install

sudo apt-get install build-essential 

#libjpg62-dev required in order to work with basic JPG files

sudo apt-get install -y libjpeg62-dev 

#libtiff-dev is required in order to work with TIFF file format

sudo apt-get install -y libtiff-dev 

#libpng-dev required in order to work with basic PNG files

sudo apt-get install -y libpng-dev

#Download ImageMagick

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

#Untar Imagemagick

tar xvzf ImageMagick.tar.gz 

#Access the working directory

cd ImageMagick/[version_number] 

#Configure and make sure to disable the "shared" option

./configure --disable-shared

#Make

sudo make

#Install

sudo make install

#Final Check

sudo make check

@aamirencodes Yes, I've installed the dependency for PNG.

Also tried your command, but it's giving me the same error.

Before jpg images also giving me the same error, then I followed all steps mentioned above.
Later on, I was able to work with jpg images, but not with PNG :(

Hello @dhruv-icreative,
I suggest you to check the presence of ZLIB library on your system: it may be missing or mis-configured.

If missing, you can install it as follow:

sudo apt get update
sudo apt install zlib1g

Let me know!

@nickferrando Thank you for the above instructions; I was wondering if some of the Delegates required to be installed above are uninstalling or cancelling out each other ; eg libtiff-dev REMOVES libjpeg62-dev. Will this affect the installation of ImageMagick In the Long run?

Thanks a lot!

You’re welcome @abidullah667!

Thanks a lot! @nickferrando

You're welcome @shamsulaman786!

Hey, man! Thanks a lot, really! You saved me!

I’m glad to hear this @tonyblaze27!

Thank you!!! It worked out finally

Thank you!!! It worked out finally

Great @julia-blake!

@nickferrando +1 @aamirencodes 'This page should be in the search results when a layman tries to installs ImageMagick for the first time in Linux environment'.

One question related to @aamirencodes note '#libjpg62-dev required in order to work with basic PNG files' :
I am seeing "Package libjpeg62-dev is not available." JPEG encode/decode works by installing the suggested replacement "libjpeg62-turbo-dev" but the PNG will not take.

Any thoughts?

Info:

Version: ImageMagick 7.1.0-29 Q16-HDRI x86_64 19841 https://imagemagick.org
Copyright: (C) 1999 ImageMagick Studio LLC
License: https://imagemagick.org/script/license.php
Features: Cipher DPC HDRI OpenMP(4.5) 
Delegates (built-in): jbig jpeg tiff 
Compiler: gcc (10.2)

Update If you are on a Pixelbook or Chromebook running Debian 11 - These installation steps worked for me:
https://www.linuxcapable.com/how-to-install-imagemagick-on-debian-11/

PNG, WEBP, TIFF, JPG all working!

i am getting error > " no decode delegate for this image format `HEIC' @ error/constitute.c/ReadImage/741"
how that needs to be resolved? i am having image magic 7.1.0.44 version

Hello @Kalyani-Borkar,
sometimes HEIC library is not enabled after compilation, even if it's properly configured "--with-heic=yes".

You may want to check the following article, in order to fix the problem:

https://askubuntu.com/questions/1131996/problems-with-compiling-imagemagick-with-heic/1142317#1142317

Thank you nickferrando, by following above steps i was able to resolve issue

Great @Kalyani-Borkar!

error "magick.MagickApiException: unable to open image `/tmp/925861962_1658920855718_50.png': No such file or directory @ error/blob.c/OpenBlob/2874"
how could i resolve this?

I think your file permission has been changed. please give it permission using the below command:
sudo chmod 777 /path/to/image-file or sudo chmod 777 -R /path/to/parent/directory/of/image-file
I hope it will work

For which file/Folder error comming how i get to know that in this case?

On Microsoft's packaged Ubuntu 20.04 for WSL I found that I needed to install pkg-config before configure would find libpng. (And a lot of other delegates: At least [jng lzma png ps tiff zlib] all seem to need pkg-config to be detected, and possibly others that are genuinely not there on my system).

On Microsoft's packaged Ubuntu 20.04 for WSL I found that I needed to install pkg-config before configure would find libpng. (And a lot of other delegates: At least [jng lzma png ps tiff zlib] all seem to need pkg-config to be detected, and possibly others that are genuinely not there on my system).

Thanks, installing pkg-config solved it for me on Ubuntu 22.

6 hours down the drain today... YOU ARE A LIFESAVER! thx

I have no words for how this helped me. Thank you!

I have no words for how this helped me. Thank you!

That's great to hear @darkwingdck!

This does not work on Ubuntu 22/04. No delegation for PNG etc. Tried all the way and installed all required libraries.

@alm494, did you check if the pkg-config package is present? ./configure doesn't even try to find the PNG libraries if it doesn't have that.

thank you for this:)

sudo apt install pkg-config made PNG and other delegates work for me as well on Ubuntu 22.04 Dell XPS13

sudo apt install pkg-config made PNG and other delegates work for me as well on Ubuntu 22.04 Dell XPS13

This worked for me for getting PNG added to the delegates list, but now I'm having a hard time getting FFTW enabled.

Fixed for FFTW I must have installed the wrong package so the script was not detecting it.
sudo apt-get install libfftw3-dev libfftw3-doc