ORIGINAL ARTICLE: http://tecadmin.net/install-imagemagick-on-linux/
ImageMagick is a software suite to create, edit, compose, or convert bitmap images. It can read and write images in a variety of formats like GIF, JPEG, PNG, Postscript, and TIFF. We can also use ImageMagick to resize, flip, mirror, rotate, distort, shear and transform images, adjust image colors, apply various special effects, or draw text, lines, polygons, ellipses and Bézier curves.
ImageMagick is typically used from command line. Also we can use it from any programming language by using its interface like Magick.NET (.Net),IMagick (PHP), PerlMagick (Perl) etc.
Step 1. Install Required Packages
First we need to install required packages in order to install ImageMagic and IMagick PHP extension.
For CentOS,RHEL Users:
# yum installgcc php-devel php-pear
For Ubuntu Users:
$ sudo apt-getinstall gcc
Step 2. Install ImageMagick
After installing required packages, let’s install ImageMagick using following command.
For CentOS,RHEL Users:
# yuminstall ImageMagick ImageMagick-devel
For Ubuntu Users:
$ sudo apt-getinstall imagemagick
Step 3. Install ImageMagick PHP Extension
At this point you have successfully installed ImageMagick package on your system. Now are are going to install ImageMagick php extension, So that we can use it through php code.
For CentOS,RHEL Users:
# peclinstall imagick # echo "extension=imagick.so " > /etc/php.d/imagick.ini
For Ubuntu Users:
$ sudo apt-getinstall php5-imagick
Step 4. Restart Apache and Check Extension
After completing above steps you need to reload apache service to enable php exension using following command
CentOS,RHEL Users: # service httpd reloadUbuntu Users: # service apache2 reload
Click here to read more details about ImageMagick setup and there uses.
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Howto: Install ImageMagick on Plesk
How to install ImageMagick on Linux/Plesk server? Follow the below steps to install ImageMagick on a Plesk server. Login to your server as root and execute the following commands:
1. Install “ImageMagick” package via YUM.
yum install ImageMagick
2. Now install “ImageMagick-devel”
yum install ImageMagick-devel
3. Install “php-pear” required for “pecl”. It will install and compile ImageMagick with PHP for you.
yum install php-pear
4. Now, you need to install ImageMagick using pecl
pecl install imagick
A imagick.so file will be created under /usr/lib/php/modules/ directory. Now, edit the php configuration file /etc/php.ini and add the following line after the “extension_dir” directive
extension = “imagick.so”
Save the file and restart the httpd service. That is it. You can verify using the command:
php -i | grep imagick