Install ImageMagick on a server

ImageMagick is a pretty neat image convert tool, with support for animated gif. It is well integrated to the Drupal ecosystem. Here is how to install it on modern systems.

1. Select the wanted version

Choose the tar.gz version you want from the following list and copy the URL

2. Download and extract the selected package

Download the package from ImageMagick website and extract it to the ImageMagick-7 folder.

cd ~
mkdir imagemagick
cd imagemagick
wget https://download.imagemagick.org/archive/releases/ImageMagick-7.1.1-15.tar.xz
tar -xvzf ImageMagick-7.1.1-15.tar.xz
mv ImageMagick-7.1.1-15 ImageMagick-7
cd ImageMagick-7

3. Install the dependencies

Make sure that you have [https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/discussions/6682#discussioncomment-9066741](libtool and gcc installed). To do so, use the following command:

On AlmaLinux : sudo yum install libtool gcc-c++ gcc make git wget libjpeg-turbo-devel libpng-devel libtiff-devel libwebp-devel freetype-devel ghostscript libX11-devel libxml2-devel libwmf-devel zlib-devel
On Ubuntu : sudo apt install libtool gcc-c++ gcc make git wget libjpeg-turbo-devel libpng-devel libtiff-devel libwebp-devel freetype-devel ghostscript libX11-devel libxml2-devel libwmf-devel zlib-devel

4. Install ImageMagick

Build and install ImageMagick with the following commands:

./configure
make
sudo make install
make check
sudo ldconfig

5. Validate the installation

Run the following command to make sure that ImageMagick is now available:

which convert