Comments on: ImageMagick 6.4.x on CentOS 5

By: Syed

Syed — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 15:17:26 +0000

Thanks thanks thanks. I was having problem with ImageMagick and imagick for the last 3 weeks. Installation was OK and imagick was displaying in the phpinfo() but the functions were not available. Later I found out that in CentOS 5 default ImageMagick is 6.2.8, and to use imagick with all the features you need to upgrade ImageMagick to at least 6.3.1.

Later found that you can't upgrade ImageMagick 6.2.8 by yum in CentOS 5. So, I had to build & compile it from source.

Hope this info helps someone who desperately needed ImageMagick for his/her web project.

Thanks again.

By: Joachim

Joachim — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:49:58 +0000

Thanks a million!
This was very useful for me although I am on OpenSuse 10.1. But you pointed me in the right direction and saved my many hours of frustration, I am sure. My problem was that ImageMagick was not configured to support FreeType and the versions of both ImageMagick and Freetype were very old. This caused jpg-images from PDF:s to be broken with no text. Well, ImageMagick 6.6 works fine now with FreeType2!

By: Joakim Nyman

Joakim Nyman — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:32:16 +0000

Great blog entry! This just helped me successfully install ImageMagick 6.5 on CentOS 5.4.

Thanks a bunch,
Joakim

By: links for 2010-01-05

links for 2010-01-05 — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 22:58:13 +0000

[...] ImageMagick 6.4.x on CentOS 5 | Andrew Duck “As is always the case with RedHat and CentOS, a number of packages in the usual yum repositories lack heavily behind the advancements made by their authors and teams. One such package is ImageMagick… ” [...]

By: Bob Forma

Bob Forma — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 14:01:41 +0000

Hi Andrew,

great blog entry! I just successfully installed ImageMagick 6.5.10 on CentOs 5.2.

Thanks,
Bob

By: Zahhar Kirillov

Zahhar Kirillov — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 11:46:44 +0000

Worked for me on CentOS 5.4 while trying to install RMagick 2.12.2
First of all I installed default (read: obsolete) ImageMagick from yum to get all dependencies installed. Then I removed old ImageMagick and wget latest one, configured as adwised in this blogpost and installed.

Finally, “gem install rmagick” – and, voila

By: Daniele C.

Daniele C. — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:02:25 +0000

I have created a script to perform everything at once (note that it installs in /usr not /usr/local):

#!/bin/sh
wget ftp://ftp.imagemagick.org/pub/ImageMagick/ImageMagick.tar.gz && \
tar xfz ImageMagick.tar.gz && \
rm ImageMagick.tar.gz && \
cd ImageMagick* && \
./configure –prefix=/usr –with-bzlib=yes –with-fontconfig=yes –with-freetype=yes –with-gslib=yes –with-gvc=yes –with-jpeg=yes –with-jp2=yes –with-png=yes –with-tiff=yes && \
make clean && \
make && \
sudo make install && \
sudo ldconfig /usr/

By: Hector M

Hector M — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 17:31:11 +0000

Thanks for your solution, it save me a lot of time!.

After installation I got the following error:

convert: error while loading shared libraries: libMagickCore.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

So I had to execute the following command so links will be updated:

[user #]ldconfig /usr/

I hope this help someone else.

By: SEO

SEO — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 23:18:44 +0000

I get the following error when using your instructions on Cent OS:

convert: error while loading shared libraries: libMagick.so.10: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

By: Becca

Becca — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 13:49:58 +0000

I wish I had found this sooner, I ran through the regular instructions on the ImageMagick website :-\

By: Mike Robinson

Mike Robinson — Thu, 21 May 2009 01:29:30 +0000

Just in case anyone was wondering, the steps outlined above work with CentOS 4. I just upgraded my system to ImageMagick 6.5.0 using this.

By: marrk

marrk — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 10:59:27 +0000

Thanks for this

Couple of things I changed on my centos 5.3 machine, the configure line I used is :

./configure –prefix=/usr –with-bzlib=yes –with-fontconfig=yes –with-freetype=yes –with-gslib=yes –with-gvc=yes –with-jpeg=yes –with-jp2=yes –with-png=yes –with-tiff=yes

Note the –prefix=/usr and the ./ before configure

By: Kannan

Kannan — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 18:47:30 +0000

Wow !!! That was an excellent note. Thank you veeeery much

By: stevec

stevec — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 16:28:33 +0000

god bless, i’ve been having an issue with imagemagick on cent 5 for the last couple of months and as i wasn’t incredibly keen on fumbling my way through what you’ve so elegantly provided i’ve been blissfully and ignorantly ignoring the issue all together. i’ll give this a shot on the weekend when i can schedule some down time on the server.