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.

Thanks in advance!

Solution 1

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).

Solution 2

Installation steps for Ubuntu 12.04:

1. Install imagemagick

   sudo apt-get install imagemagick

2. Install imagemagick PECL extension

   sudo apt-get install php5-imagick

3. Restart webserver

Solution 3

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

Solution 4

For Ubuntu 16 or later:

sudo apt-get install php-imagick

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

Solution 5

Install imagemagick with :

sudo apt-get install imagemagick

Install imagemagick PECL extension :

sudo apt-get install php5-imagick

Restart webserver

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Comments

[mario]

Not usally. You may wish to check /etc/php5/conf.d/. But installing such a package ought to add an uncommented directive there.

[SSH This]

Sorry, I was actually doing something else wrong, but thanks for the info!

[user2867288]

Thumbs up for not assuming I already had imagemagick installed.

[jmadsen]

you should also mention that a webserver restart seems to be required

[Jimbali]

In my case I had to do sudo service nginx restart and sudo service php5-fpm restart.

[johnRivs]

You wrote the same thing twice.

[Nico]

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

[Papotitu]

sudo apt-get install php5.6-imagick now for Ubuntu 16.04 and upper

[Matiss]

sudo apt-get install imagemagick php-imagick for Ubuntu 16.04

[bdombro]

Actually, they are different. Notice that one has php5-imagick and the other php-imagick