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Installing ImageMagick on a cPanel Server

Posted by Vanessa | Tagged under ,, | Posted on February 12, 2010

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Some time in earlier 2009 cPanel added a new script to their repository to allow cPanel admins to easily install ImageMagick without the hassle of finding compatible RPMs for newer versions, or dealing with the the various issues surrounding Perl Magick on CentOS 5/RHEL 5 servers.

First, check to see if you have existing RPM versions installed on your system:

rpm -qa |grep -i magick

If any packages show up, remove them with rpm -e . Then to reinstall ImageMagick, run:

/scripts/installimagemagick

This may take a bit of time, but it will fully install a functional copy of ImageMagick as well as Perl Magick. When it’s done, you can run the following commands to test it:

convert -v

…will show you ImageMagick is installed, and to what version:

Version: ImageMagick 6.4.8 2010-02-11 Q16 OpenMP http://www.imagemagick.org
Copyright: Copyright (C) 1999-2009 ImageMagick Studio LLC

To test Perl Magick (Image::Magick), run:

/scripts/checkimagemagick


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Comments (5)

Rob K said on Aug-04-2011

Thanks but doesn’t work.
Script runs in a second and says ‘installed Ok’
Convert -v gives ‘command not found’
checkimagemagick says insatleld ok but my web apps say it isn’t installed
Vanessa said on Aug-04-2011

If you type in “which convert” do you get any output?
Richard D said on Sep-27-2011

Hello,

The install script worked on Centos 5.6 and cPanel but not Centos 5.7 and Panel. The install script finishes with an error.

&image::Magick constant not defined. The required ImageMagick libraries are not installed or not installed properly.

This was a fresh Centos 5.7 install and cPanel.
Chris Brown said on Dec-08-2011

Hi. Thanks for this. It is exactly what I was looking for. Do I use it in root, or in cPanel for each resold account?
Vanessa said on Dec-13-2011

You run this as root to install on the server itself.

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