How to Install ImageMagick on Ubuntu 18.04 & 16.04 LTS

ImageMagick is a software suite to create, edit, compose, or convert bitmap images. It can read and write images in a variety of formats like GIF, JPEG, PNG, Postscript, and TIFF. We can also use ImageMagick to resize, flip, mirror, rotate, distort, shear and transform images, adjust image colors, apply various special effects, or draw text, lines, polygons, ellipses and Bézier curves.

This article will help you to install ImageMagick on 19.04, 18.04 & 16.04 LTS operating systems.

Step 1 – Prerequsities

First of all, You need to install the required packages in order to install ImageMagick and Imagick PHP extension. You can also visit our tutorial to install different versions of PHP on Ubuntu.

sudo apt install php php-common gcc

Step 2 – Install ImageMagick

After installing required packages, let’s install ImageMagick using the following command. ImageMagick package is available under default apt repositories.

sudo apt install imagemagick

Step 3 – Install imagick PHP Extension

At this point, you have successfully installed ImageMagick package on your system. Now, you need to install Imagick PHP extension, So that we can use it through PHP code.

sudo apt install php-imagick

For different PHP version’s you need to install the specific version of imagick like php7.1-imagick or php7.3-imagick etc.

Step 4 – Restart Apache and Verify

After completing above steps you need to reload apache service to enable php exension using following command

sudo systemctl restart apache2

Now verify that module is enabled properly.

php -m | grep imagick

imagick

You can also create phpinfo() file to view ImageMagick on the web browser.

Click here to read more details about ImageMagick setup and there uses.