Install ImageMagick (Image Manipulation) Tool on RHEL/CentOS and Fedora

Ravi SaiveLast Updated: October 2, 2019 Read Time: 4 minsOpen Source 44 Comments

ImageMagick is a free open source simple software suite for any kind of image manipulation that is used for creating, editing, converting, displaying image files.

It can able to read and write over 200 image files such as JPEG, GIF, PNG, TIFF, and Photo CD image formats and it is also used for thumbnail or captcha generation. It also includes command-line options for creating transparent or animated gif image formats and many more features like resize, sharpen, rotate or add special effects to an image.

To use the ImageMagick tool with PHP or Perl programming language, you will need to install ImageMagick with the Imagick PHP extension for PHP and ImageMagick-Perl extension for Perl.

Imagick is a simple PHP extension for creating and modifying images using the ImageMagick API program. There is a confusion in name, as people think that ImageMagick and Imagick both are the same, but you can use ImageMagick without Imagick extension but you need both installed on your machine to use and run it.

Installing ImageMagick from Repository

First, install following prerequisite php-pear, php-devel and gcc packages to compile the Imagick PHP extension.

# yum install php-pear php-devel gcc

Once you’ve installed php-pear, php-devel, and gcc packages, you may now install ImageMagick software for PHP and Perl support using yum command.

# yum install ImageMagick ImageMagick-devel ImageMagick-perl

IMPORTANT: ImageMagick is not available in CentOS/RHEL 8, and it has been replaced with GraphicsMagick instead, which is a fork of ImageMagick.

To install GraphicsMagick on CentOS/RHEL 8, run the following command.

# dnf info GraphicsMagick
# dnf install GraphicsMagick GraphicsMagick-devel GraphicsMagick-perl

Next, verify that ImageMagick has been installed on your system by checking its version.

# convert --version
 
Version: ImageMagick 6.7.8-9 2019-02-01 Q16 http://www.imagemagick.org
Copyright: Copyright (C) 1999-2012 ImageMagick Studio LLC
Features: OpenMP

CentOS/RHEL 8 users, can run the following command to verify the version of GraphicsMagick installed on the system.

# gm version

GraphicsMagick 1.3.33 2019-07-20 Q16 http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
Copyright (C) 2002-2019 GraphicsMagick Group.
Additional copyrights and licenses apply to this software.
See http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/www/Copyright.html for details.

Installing ImageMagick 7 from Source Code

To install ImageMagick from source, you need a proper development environment with a compiler and related development tools. If you don’t have the required packages on your system, install development tools as shown:

# yum groupinstall 'Development Tools'
# yum -y install bzip2-devel freetype-devel libjpeg-devel libpng-devel libtiff-devel giflib-devel zlib-devel ghostscript-devel djvulibre-devel libwmf-devel jasper-devel libtool-ltdl-devel libX11-devel libXext-devel libXt-devel lcms-devel libxml2-devel librsvg2-devel OpenEXR-devel php-devel

Now, download the latest version of the ImageMagick source code using the following wget command and extract it.

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

Configure and compile the ImageMagick source code. Depending on your server hardware specs, this may take some time to finish.

# cd ImageMagick*
# ./configure
# make
# make install

Verify that the ImageMagick compile and install were successful.

# magick -version

Version: ImageMagick 7.0.8-28 Q16 x86_64 2019-02-19 https://imagemagick.org
Copyright: © 1999-2019 ImageMagick Studio LLC
License: https://imagemagick.org/script/license.php
Features: Cipher DPC HDRI OpenMP 
Delegates (built-in): bzlib djvu fontconfig freetype jng jpeg lzma openexr pangocairo png tiff wmf x xml zlib

Install Imagick PHP Extension

Next, compile the Imagick for PHP extension. To do, simply run the following ‘pecl‘ command. It will install ImageMagick and imagick PHP extension module ‘imagick.so‘ under /usr/lib/php/modules directory. If you are using a 64-bit system, the module directory path would be /usr/lib64/php/modules.

Note: It will ask you to provide Imagemagick installation prefix, simply hit enter to auto-detect.

# pecl install imagick 

downloading imagick-3.4.3.tgz ...
Starting to download imagick-3.4.3.tgz (245,410 bytes)
...................................................done: 245,410 bytes
19 source files, building
running: phpize
Configuring for:
PHP Api Version:         20100412
Zend Module Api No:      20100525
Zend Extension Api No:   220100525
Please provide the prefix of Imagemagick installation [autodetect] :

Now, add the ‘imagick.so‘ extension to ‘/etc/php.ini‘ file.

echo extension=imagick.so >> /etc/php.ini

Next, restart Apache webserver.

# service httpd restart

Verify the Imagick PHP extension by running the following command. You will see the Imagick extension similar to below.

# php -m | grep imagick

imagick

Install GMagick PHP Extension

Run the following commands to compile and install GMagick PHP Extension.

# cd /usr/local/src
# wget https://pecl.php.net/get/gmagick
# tar xfvz gmagick
# cd gmagick-*
# phpize
# ./configure
# make
# make install

Now, add the ‘gmagick.so‘ extension to ‘/etc/php.ini‘ file.

# echo extension=gmagick.so >> /etc/php.ini

Next, restart the Apache webserver.

# systemctl restart httpd

Verify gmagick PHP extension by running the following command.

# php -m | grep gmagick

gmagick

Alternatively, you can create a file called ‘phpinfo.php‘ under website root directory (ex: /var/www/html/).

# vi /var/www/html/phpinfo.php

Add the following code.

<?php

     phpinfo ();
?>

Open your favorite web browser and type ‘http://localhost/phpinfo.php‘ or ‘http://ip-addresss/phpinfo.php‘ and verify the extension.

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44 Comments

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Ankit

April 21, 2023 at 4:32 pm

I got stuck on:

GraphicsMagick configuration program… configure: error: not found. Please provide a path to the GraphicsMagick-config program.

Linux: Fedora
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Veeramani M

March 10, 2023 at 6:29 pm

Hello Tecmint,

We have a requirement to install the PHP Modules Imagick, Redis, and WebP through Imagick on Suse Linux.

We have already installed PHP 8 Version.

So the above modules need to install in addition to the existing modules through configure compile and run method using make and make install.

Could you please check and help us with this?

Thank you.

Regards,
Veeramani M
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Patrick Aziken

August 26, 2020 at 2:00 pm
I was able to install ImageMagick on CentOS 7. I ran convert --version and the following was returned:
```
# convert --version
Version: ImageMagick 6.9.10-68 Q16 x86_64 2020-04-01 https://imagemagick.org
Copyright: © 1999-2019 ImageMagick Studio LLC
License: https://imagemagick.org/script/license.php
Features: Cipher DPC Modules OpenMP(3.1)
Delegates (built-in): bzlib cairo fontconfig freetype gslib 
jng jpeg lcms ltdl lzma openexr pangocairo png ps rsvg tiff wmf x xml zlib
```
So I don’t think ImageMagick was discontinued for CentOS 7
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- Scott
  
  March 23, 2023 at 9:49 pm
  I am running CentOS 7 and PHP. Following these instructions, I was able to install ImageMagick, but php failed to load the imagick.so.
  
  I think it was a thread-safe vs non-thread-safe version issue with imagick.so. I uninstalled imagick, then I successfully reinstalled it using these instructions:
```
# yum install [--enablerepo=remi] php-pecl-imagick
```
  Credit to Ritter on serverfault.com, link: https://serverfault.com/questions/462892/how-to-install-imagemagick-for-php-on-centos
  Reply

I am supposed to use ImageMagick in the Alfresco DMS solution. But since I am setting Alfresco in centos 8.1 and as mentioned by you, that ImageMagick in not supported in version 8, I installed GraphicsMagick. I did not build from source rather used command:

# dnf install GraphicsMagick

My questions are:

1. What is the root installation directory of GraphicsMagick?

2. I need to set the following parameters in my alfresco. What would be corresponding values for GraphicsMagick software

Property 	Description
img.root 	On Windows, set this property to img.root=C:\\ImageMagick
                        On Linux, set this property to img.root=/ImageMagick

img.dyn 	On Windows, set this property to img.dyn=${img.root}\\lib
                        On Linux, set this property to img.dyn=${img.root}/lib

img.exe 	On Windows, set this property to img.exe=${img.root}\\convert.exe
                        On Linux, set this property to img.exe=${img.root}/bin/convert

img.coders 	On Windows, set this property to img.coders=${img.root}\\modules\\coders
                        On Linux, set this property to img.coders=${img.root}/modules/coders

img.config 	On Windows, set this property to img.config=${img.root}\\config
                        On Linux, set this property to img.config=${img.root}/config

img.url 	        On Windows, set this property to img.url=${img.root}\\url
                        On Linux, set this property to img.url=${img.root}/url

MarcusZ

January 1, 2020 at 10:25 am
This works for me on CentOS 7.7.1908, you replace rh-php71-php-XXXXXX which should install other similar libraries/modules.
```
$ sudo yum install rh-php71-php-imagick -y && systemctl restart rh-php71-php-fpm.service
```
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Rick

October 2, 2019 at 1:47 am
I get to this step, “Install Imagick PHP Extension“, but get this error back from Terminal:
```
"bash: pecl: command not found".  
```
I am using this command: “pecl install imagick“.

Did I miss a step, or am I running the wrong command?
Reply
- Ravi Saive
  
  October 2, 2019 at 11:09 am
  @Rick,
  
  Please install the missing packages.
```
# yum install php-pear php-devel gcc 
```
  Reply
Sri Saila

September 16, 2019 at 10:49 am

Does this work in RHEL 8
Reply
- Ravi Saive
  
  September 16, 2019 at 12:55 pm
  
  @Sri,
  
  Yes, it should work on RHEL 8 as well..
  Reply
Sameh Pierre

September 12, 2019 at 4:48 pm

Hi, After doing all that I’ve this error message “WriteBlob Failed `cs.png’ @ error/png.c/MagickPNGErrorHandler/1715”

I’m using CentOS 7 and PHP 5.2 and ImageMagick 7. I set permission to 777, but don’t know what I am missing 3 weeks in the problem with no solution !!!
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Jeyaram

March 21, 2019 at 10:02 am

Thanks, Nice Article. I tried same link (https://www.tecmint.com/install-imagemagick-in-linux/) 2015. I saved this link in my draft and tried in 2019 again. And it seems the article is also updated to latest instructions. Wow. Nice and Awesome this website. I love it.
Reply
- Ravi Saive
  
  March 25, 2019 at 12:17 pm
  
  @Jeyaram,
  
  Thanks, keep showing love towards Tecmint.com :)
  Reply

Hi,

I followed your guide and everything runs as you have shown, but when I try to use imagick i get:

Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Class ‘Imagick’ not found in /home/api/public_html/TestImagick.php:5

Last bit of output after running pecl install imagick (I replaced the server ip address with …):

Build process completed successfully
Installing '/usr/local/include/php/ext/imagick/php_imagick_shared.h'
Installing '/usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20170718/imagick.so'
install ok: channel://pecl.php.net/imagick-3.4.3
configuration option "php_ini" is not set to php.ini location
You should add "extension=imagick.so" to php.ini
user@... ~$ echo extension=imagick.so >> /etc/php.ini
user@... ~$ service httpd restart
Redirecting to /bin/systemctl restart httpd.service
user@... ~$ php -m | grep imagick
imagick
user@... ~$

Running phpinfo gives me:

Configuration File (php.ini) Path 	/usr/local/php
Loaded Configuration File 	/usr/local/php/php.ini
Scan this dir for additional .ini files 	/usr/local/php/php.d

I added extension=imagick.so to php.ini in /usr/local/php.

Further phpinfo output:

imagick module	enabled
imagick module version 	3.4.3
imagick classes 	Imagick, ImagickDraw, ImagickPixel, ImagickPixelIterator
Imagick compiled with ImageMagick version 	ImageMagick 6.7.8-9 2019-02-01 Q16 http://www.imagemagick.org
Imagick using ImageMagick library version 	ImageMagick 6.7.8-9 2019-02-01 Q16 http://www.imagemagick.org
ImageMagick copyright 	Copyright (C) 1999-2012 ImageMagick Studio LLC
ImageMagick release date 	2019-02-01
ImageMagick number of supported formats: 	209
ImageMagick supported formats 	3FR, A, AAI, AI, ART, ARW, AVI, AVS, B, BGR, BGRA, BMP, BMP2, BMP3, BRF, C, 
CAL, CALS, CANVAS, CAPTION, CIN, CIP, CLIP, CMYK, CMYKA, CR2, CRW, CUR, CUT, DCM, DCR, DCX, DDS, DFONT, DNG,
 DOT, DPX, EPDF, EPI, EPS, EPS2, EPS3, EPSF, EPSI, EPT, EPT2, EPT3, ERF, EXR, FAX, FITS, FRACTAL, FTS, G, G3,
 GIF, GIF87, GRADIENT, GRAY, GROUP4, HALD, HDR, HISTOGRAM, HRZ, HTM, HTML, ICB, ICO, ICON, INFO, INLINE, IPL, 
ISOBRL, J2C, J2K, JNG, JP2, JPC, JPEG, JPG, JPX, K, K25, KDC, LABEL, M, M2V, M4V, MAC, MAP, MAT, MATTE, MEF, 
MIFF, MNG, MONO, MOV, MP4, MPC, MPEG, MPG, MRW, MSL, MSVG, MTV, MVG, NEF, NRW, NULL, O, ORF, OTB, OTF, PAL, 
PALM, PAM, PANGO, PATTERN, PBM, PCD, PCDS, PCL, PCT, PCX, PDB, PDF, PDFA, PEF, PES, PFA, PFB, PFM, PGM, PGX, 
PICON, PICT, PIX, PJPEG, PLASMA, PNG, PNG24, PNG32, PNG8, PNM, PPM, PREVIEW, PS, PS2, PS3, PSB, PSD, PTIF, 
PWP, R, RADIAL-GRADIENT, RAF, RAS, RGB, RGBA, RGBO, RLA, RLE, SCR, SCT, SFW, SGI, SHTML, SR2, SRF, STEGANO,
SUN, SVG, SVGZ, TEXT, TGA, THUMBNAIL, TIFF, TIFF64, TILE, TIM, TTC, TTF, TXT, UBRL, UIL, UYVY, VDA, VICAR, 
VID, VIFF, VST, WBMP, WMF, WMV, WMZ, WPG, X, X3F, XBM, XC, XCF, XPM, XPS, XV, XWD, Y, YCbCr, YCbCrA, YUV
Directive	Local Value	Master Value
imagick.locale_fix	0	0
imagick.progress_monitor	0	0
imagick.skip_version_check	0	0

Apache version: Apache/2.4.34
PHP version: 7.2.9 
Distro Name: CentOS Linux release 7.5.1804 (Core)
Platform: x86_64 [Dedicated]

My test code:

setResolution(150, 150);
    // Reads image from PDF
    $imagick->readImage('test.pdf[0]');
    echo "image read";

And the output:

Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Class ‘Imagick’ not found in /home/api/public_html/TestImagick.php:5

Stack trace:
#0 {main}
thrown in /home/api/public_html/TestImagick.php on line 5

Please help!!!

Ravi Saive

March 5, 2019 at 11:08 am

I see you’ve added echo extension=imagick.so >> /etc/php.ini file, but your actual PHP location is /usr/local/php/php.ini. Please check your configuration and add extension to correct php.ini file.
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- Newbie
  
  March 5, 2019 at 12:53 pm
  
  As I said in my question, I did add imagick.so to /usr/local/php/php.ini as well as /etc/php.ini.
  Still the same error.
  Reply
  - Newbie
    
    March 5, 2019 at 1:18 pm
    
    Found the problem at last!
    
    There was yet another php.ini file in the website directory. I added “extension=imagick.so” to that one as well, and now the class is found.
    
    I was lazy and used the PHP info button from the CWP dashboard — it doesn’t give me the configuration file that is actually loaded when I run a PHP script on the website.
    Reply

khoa

June 4, 2018 at 8:31 am

Best place to execute ImageMagick online for you. Supporting all ImageMagick feature with output file and console log, no need to install.
Reply
Ivan Rico

September 1, 2016 at 10:22 pm

Good! this solved my problem, thanks a lot
Reply
Durai C

February 23, 2016 at 9:05 am

Hi,

I am getting error like
/var/tmp/imagick/imagick.c:3299: error: ‘ZEND_MOD_END’ undeclared here (not in a function)
make: *** [imagick.lo] Error 1
ERROR: `make’ failed

Kindly help me to solve this issue
Reply
- Ravi Saive
  
  February 23, 2016 at 11:01 am
  @Durai,
  
  It seems that you’re installing ImageMagick on older version of PHP, consider upgrading to a more recent version that supports missing headers of ImageMagick, do:
```
# yum update php
```
  Reply
Mark Jx

November 13, 2014 at 11:36 pm

THANKS!

I was trying to get jpeg / jpg file uploads working with mediawiki 1.23.6 on CentOS 7 with Apache/2.4.6 and php 5.4.16. I ran the command:

yum install php-pear ImageMagick ImageMagick-devel ImageMagick-perl

restarted httpd, and now everything works. Thanks!
Reply
ehudson3

June 19, 2014 at 11:15 pm

Hello. All went well until # pecl install imagick then I received this series of errors on CentOS 6.5 PHP 5.5.12:

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in Command.php on line 259

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /usr/share/pear/PEAR/Command.php on line 259

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in Command.php on line 259

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /usr/share/pear/PEAR/Command.php on line 259

Notice: Undefined index: honorsbaseinstall in Role.php on line 180

Notice: Undefined index: installable in Role.php on line 145

Notice: Undefined index: phpfile in Role.php on line 212

Notice: Undefined index: config_vars in Role.php on line 49

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /usr/share/pear/PEAR/Command.php on line 259
XML Extension not found

What happened?

Then I erased pear and /usr/share/pear/ folder. Installed go-pear with same results. I’d appreciate any insight and / or solution. I thank you Ravi and appreciate your articles!
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- Ravi Saive
  
  June 20, 2014 at 3:50 pm
  
  This error new to me, never seen such error, but I think PHP XML extension is missing, try to install php-xml via yum and then follow installation again.
  Reply
sougat

May 8, 2014 at 4:15 pm

Thanks a lot. I am able to setup Imagic in my server. Great and helpful article.
Reply
Tonda

April 27, 2014 at 11:25 pm

I get error after command
“sudo pecl install imagick”

downloading imagick-3.1.2.tgz …
Starting to download imagick-3.1.2.tgz (94,657 bytes)
…………………done: 94,657 bytes
15 source files, building
running: phpize
Can’t find PHP headers in /usr/include/php
The php-devel package is required for use of this command.
ERROR: `phpize’ failed

then just install php-devel and everythink works like a charm.
Thanks for this article :).
Reply
Sajjad Saleem

February 24, 2014 at 5:20 pm

This worked perfectly. Excellent
Reply
Siva

October 18, 2013 at 1:41 am

I just found out that ghost script was already installed on the server
# which gs
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Siva

October 17, 2013 at 9:03 am

Awesome Article. You solved my problem. thanks a lot.
Reply
- Siva
  
  October 18, 2013 at 12:34 am
  
  I have a requirement where i need to convert a pdf to a jpeg thumbnail and i need to do this in php. I already installed imagick ( following ur article steps), do i need to install ghostscript too for converting the pdf to jpeg using a php script ? If I do can you breifly outline how to install ghostscript on centos
  Reply
Ilian Andreev

October 5, 2013 at 11:32 pm

Fantastic explanation, fantastic article !!! Thanks !
Reply
Mahesh

August 30, 2013 at 2:16 pm

How to install the latest version of imagemagick?
Reply
- Ravi Saive
  
  August 30, 2013 at 3:40 pm
  
  Already described in the article. follow correctly.
  Reply
Andrew

August 28, 2013 at 1:58 am

pecl install imagick fails with the following output (on CentOS 5.9 w/ PHP 5.4):

/var/tmp/imagick/imagick_class.c: In function ‘zim_imagick_setimageprogressmonitor’:
/var/tmp/imagick/imagick_class.c:9534: error: ‘struct _php_core_globals’ has no member named ‘safe_mode’
/var/tmp/imagick/imagick_class.c:9534: error: ‘CHECKUID_CHECK_FILE_AND_DIR’ undeclared (first use in this function)
/var/tmp/imagick/imagick_class.c:9534: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
/var/tmp/imagick/imagick_class.c:9534: error: for each function it appears in.)
/var/tmp/imagick/imagick_class.c:9534: error: ‘CHECKUID_NO_ERRORS’ undeclared (first use in this function)
make: *** [imagick_class.lo] Error 1
ERROR: `make’ failed

Any help would be appreciated.
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- Ravi Saive
  
  August 29, 2013 at 5:13 pm
  Try this command hope it will install correctly.
```
# pecl install imagick-2.3.0
```
  Reply
Amit

August 10, 2013 at 8:25 pm

while looking into the apache error logs it is giving this error
mod_fcgid: stderr: PHP Warning: Division by zero in /home/xxx/public_html/xxxx/logo.php on line 216,
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Amit

August 10, 2013 at 5:44 pm

Hi,

I have done everything accordingly but I am not able to see the imagick extension in phpinfo();

php -m | grep imagick — it shows that imagick is there but in phpinfo(); it is not shown anywhere….
nor I am able to run the functions getsize() etc; through my php script.
Please help
Thanks
Reply
- Ravi Saive
  
  August 10, 2013 at 6:37 pm
  
  Have you restarted Apache?
  Reply
  - Amit
    
    August 10, 2013 at 7:07 pm
    
    I have restarted several time !!
    Thanks for your reply
    Reply
    - Ravi Saive
      
      August 10, 2013 at 8:06 pm
      
      Ok, no need to worry about, if it’s showing via command line, means it installed correctly..
      Reply
      - Amit
        
        August 10, 2013 at 8:19 pm
        
        But when trying to upload the image and resize my script is not working !! though my local script is working fine !!
        
        Any help would be great ….
        Thanks
      - Marty
        
        October 8, 2013 at 12:00 am
        
        I ran into a problem that sounds similar to Amit’s. I added extension=imagick.so to my ini file, but no love. A few thoughts: make sure you have it in the right .ini file (eg: on debian flavoured linux it needs to be in /etc/php5/apache2/…
        
        also I found that pecl installed the module in /usr/lib/php/modules but my extension_dir was set to /usr/lib64/php/modules/ so i created a symlink and everything started working fine
bakti

July 2, 2013 at 1:05 pm

Thanks so much!
Reply
Hemant

April 15, 2013 at 9:53 am

Thanks for completing my request of tutorial on imagick extension…..Thanks again.
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