ImageMagick or Imagick, is a popular image editing tool to create, edit, compose, or convert digital images into another format. It supports over 200 formats, including PNG, JPEG, GIF, WebP, HEIC, SVG, PDF, DPX, EXR, and TIFF.
It provides various editing tools such as resizing, flipping, mirroring, rotating, distorting, shearing, and transforming images, adjusting image colors, applying multiple special effects, drawing text, lines, polygons, ellipses, and Bézier curves.
Today, you will learn how to install ImageMagick as an extension for PHP scripts in a few simple steps.
Requirements
First, follow the below articles to install the ImageMagick tool on your system, depending upon your Linux distribution.
Install ImageMagick PHP Extension on Debian/Ubuntu
First, open your terminal app using the Ctrl+Alt+t or Ctl+Shift+t keyboard shortcut and run the below command to install PHP and common PHP packages.
$ sudo apt install php php-common gccNow install the ImageMagick and ImageMagick PHP extension by using the following command.
$ sudo apt install imagemagick
$ sudo apt install php-imagickAfter the installation process is complete, execute the below command to restart the Apache server.
$ sudo systemctl restart apache2Finally, you can verify the ImageMagick extension is successfully installed on your system by running the below command on your terminal app.
$ php -m | grep imagick
imagickBelow is the output of the above command.
Removing the ImageMagick PHP Extension in Debian/Ubuntu
Execute the below command if you decide to remove the ImageMagick PHP extension from your Ubuntu or Debian-based distributions.
$ sudo apt remove php-imagick
$ sudo systemctl restart apache2Install ImageMagick PHP Extension on RHEL/Fedora/Alma Linux
First, open your terminal app using the Ctrl+Alt+t or Ctl+Shift+t keyboard shortcut and run the below command to install PHP and common PHP packages.
$ sudo dnf install php php-commonInstall the three required packages, php-pear, php-devel, and gcc, on your system for compiling the ImageMagick PHP extension.
$ sudo dnf install php-pear php-devel gcc Time to install the ImageMagick PHP extension using the dnf command. It will automatically install the extension and add the module to the php.ini file.
$ sudo dnf install php-imagickNext, execute the below command to restart the apache server.
$ sudo systemctl restart httpdFinally, you can verify the ImageMagick extension is successfully installed on your system by running the below command on your terminal app.
$ php -m | grep imagick
imagickBelow is the output of the above command.
Removing the ImageMagick PHP Extension in RHEL/CentOS/Fedora/Alma Linux
Execute the below command if you decide to remove the ImageMagick PHP extension and all other packages installed during the installation from your RHEL-based distributions.
$ sudo dnf remove php-pear php-devel gcc php-imagick
$ sudo systemctl restart apache2If you have any queries regarding the installation, let us know in the comment section.
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