install imagemagick from source on ubuntu 14.04

install-imagemagick.sh

#!/bin/bash

CWD=$(pwd)
TMP_DIR=/tmp/install-imagemagick

if [ "$UID" -ne 0 ]; then
   echo "This script must be run as root" 1>&2
   exit 1
fi
 
if [[ ! -d $TMP_DIR ]]; then
   mkdir -p $TMP_DIR
fi

apt-get update
apt-get remove imagemagick
apt-get install \
libmagick++-dev \
libwebp-dev \

# download the latest source archive
wget -O $TMP_DIR/ImageMagick.tar.gz \
http://www.imagemagick.org/download/ImageMagick.tar.gz

# extract the archive and change into the source dir
tar -xvzf $TMP_DIR/ImageMagick.tar.gz -C $TMP_DIR
cd $TMP_DIR/$(ls $TMP_DIR | grep -E 'ImageMagick-[0-9.-]+')


./configure --prefix=/usr
make
make install
cd $CWD

# cleanup
rm -rf $TMP_DIR