Howto: Install Imagick (for php) on Ubuntu 11.10

Question

I'm attempting to install ImagicK as its required for a Yii Extension I want to use for my project.

I've checked around and followed a few different suggestions but nothing that has worked so far, ultimately the framework extension is still throwing me an error (Must have ImagicK installed).

I've tried things like:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install imagick-php5 .. etc

as well as the PECL install which ends up throwing me the following error:

Checking ImageMagick MagickWand API configuration program... configure: error: 
not found. Please provide a path to MagickWand-config or Wand-config program.

Any help as to how to get ImagicK installed and integrated with PHP on Ubuntu 11.10 would be great.

score 116 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 24 '11 at 02:59

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The package has a different name in Ubuntu.

 sudo apt-get install php5-imagick

The error with building via PECL means you must install libmagickwand-dev, libmagickcore3, libmagickwand3 probably (there are alternatives: graphicsmagick-imagemagick-compat, see Synaptic).

answered Oct 24 '11 at 02:59

mario

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Not usally. You may wish to check `/etc/php5/conf.d/`. But installing such a package ought to add an uncommented directive there. – mario Jan 14 '13 at 22:57
Sorry, I was actually doing something else wrong, but thanks for the info! – SSH This Jan 14 '13 at 23:35
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`sudo apt-get install php5.6-imagick` now for Ubuntu 16.04 and upper – Papotitu Jul 13 '17 at 16:11
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`sudo apt-get install imagemagick php-imagick` for Ubuntu 16.04 – Matiss Aug 24 '17 at 11:56

Sumoanand · Answer 2 · 2015-03-23T17:25:47.100

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Installation steps for Ubuntu 12.04:

Install imagemagick

sudo apt-get install imagemagick
Install imagemagick PECL extension

sudo apt-get install php5-imagick
Restart webserver

edited Mar 23 '15 at 17:25

answered Aug 09 '13 at 15:39

Sumoanand

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Thumbs up for not assuming I already had imagemagick installed. – user2867288 Jul 16 '14 at 03:12
you should also mention that a webserver restart seems to be required – jmadsen Mar 22 '15 at 23:48
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In my case I had to do `sudo service nginx restart` and `sudo service php5-fpm restart`. – Jimbali Feb 10 '16 at 13:47
If you are using php 5.6, then you need to do `sudo apt-get install php5.6-imagick`. And for nginx and php-fpm: `sudo service nginx restart` and `sudo service php5.6-fpm restart` – Nico Oct 25 '16 at 19:51

bdombro · Answer 3 · 2016-10-14T17:22:41.937

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Installation steps for Ubuntu < 16.04:

sudo apt-get install imagemagick php5-imagick; sudo service apache2 restart

Installation steps for Ubuntu > 16.04:

sudo apt-get install imagemagick php-imagick; sudo service apache2 restart

edited Oct 14 '16 at 17:22

answered Jul 04 '16 at 00:07

bdombro

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You wrote the same thing twice. – johnRivs Oct 13 '16 at 10:59
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Actually, they are different. Notice that one has `php5-imagick` and the other `php-imagick` – bdombro May 19 '20 at 11:27

score 2 · Answer 4 · edited Oct 04 '16 at 09:51

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For Ubuntu 16 or later:

sudo apt-get install php-imagick

(note the use of php- instead of php5-)

edited Oct 04 '16 at 09:51

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answered Jul 27 '16 at 17:13

Karl Wolf

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score 1 · Answer 5 · edited Mar 14 '19 at 09:28

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Install imagemagick with :

sudo apt-get install imagemagick

Install imagemagick PECL extension :

sudo apt-get install php5-imagick

Restart webserver

edited Mar 14 '19 at 09:28

DependencyHell

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answered Jun 21 '17 at 06:11

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score 1 · Answer 6 · answered Oct 06 '22 at 01:57

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For php8 this is all you need:

apt-get install -y php8.0-imagick

answered Oct 06 '22 at 01:57

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score 0 · Answer 7 · answered Sep 04 '17 at 12:46

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With Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial) with PHP 5.6 not 7. PHP 7 was disabled.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install imagemagick php5.6-imagick

answered Sep 04 '17 at 12:46

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Howto: Install Imagick (for php) on Ubuntu 11.10

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