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ImageMagick installation

Thomas D edited this page Aug 23, 2020 · 9 revisions

Linux (Debian, Ubuntu, Kali and distributions providing a native package)

  1. apt-get update && apt-get install imagemagick (replace apt-get by your distribution package manager)

Linux (other distributions)

  1. Get the latest ImageMagick program. The current version was 7.0.9 at the time of writing this tutorial.
    https://imagemagick.org/script/download.php

  2. Download it on your system (choose 32 or 64bits) and put it wherever you want, let's say /opt
    $ cd /opt && mkdir imagemagick && cd imagemagick
    $ wget https://imagemagick.org/download/binaries/magick
    $ chmod +x ./magick

  3. Make a symlink to the magick binary in your /usr/local/bin directory
    $ ln -s /opt/imagemagick/magick /usr/local/bin/convert

  4. Execute the binary with the -v option to check that everything works

    $ convert -version
    Version: ImageMagick 7.0.9-13 Q16 x86_64 2020-01-01 https://imagemagick.org
    Copyright: © 1999-2020 ImageMagick Studio LLC
    License: https://imagemagick.org/script/license.php
    Features: Cipher DPC 
    Delegates (built-in): bzlib djvu fontconfig freetype gvc jbig jng jpeg lcms lqr lzma openexr png raqm tiff wmf x xml zlib
    

Windows

Follow that tutorial (archived here), just be sure to check Add application directory to your system path and Install legacy utilities