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!

Answer 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).

Answer 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

Answer 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

Answer 4

For Ubuntu 16 or later:

sudo apt-get install php-imagick

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

Answer 5

Install imagemagick with :

sudo apt-get install imagemagick

Install imagemagick PECL extension :

sudo apt-get install php5-imagick

Restart webserver

Answer 6

With Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial) with PHP 5.6 not 7. PHP 7 was disabled.

1. sudo apt-get update
2. sudo apt-get install imagemagick php5.6-imagick