Install Imagemagick / Imagick for PHP on Ubuntu
php, ubuntu January 15th, 2008Want to know how to install Imagemagick on ubuntu ?
No problem if you want to install imagemagick on your pc, ubuntu makes this very easy for you with only a few simple commands..
- Make sure u have pear install ( ’sudo apt-get install php-pear’ )
- Then run: sudo apt-get install imagemagick
- And then: sudo pecl install imagick
**if you get an error which looks like this: configure: error: Cannot locate configuration program Wand-configthen no problem, simply run the following command: sudo apt-get install libmagick9-dev
Now re-run sudo pecl install imagick
All sorted ? Good, now simply add extension=imagick.so to your php.ini and your done 
Incidently, if you want to get serious about PHP and Imagemagick, i highly recommend you check out mikko’s imagemagick blog which details lots of examples of using imagemagick and pushing it to the limit. cool stuff.
January 18th, 2008 at 5:42 am
Many thanks, I just set-up a Ubuntu headless server and your guide was very useful for enabling imagemagick. Just to say I ran into a problem on the way and thought I would put it here in case anyone else runs into it as well.
If you get the error:
sh: phpize: command not found
ERROR: `phpize’ failed
Run (as root):
apt-get install php5-dev
Or for PHP4:
apt-get install php4-dev
February 2nd, 2008 at 9:09 am
Thanks for the help Tom and Dan