Install imagemagick with PHP imagick extension on CentOS

Posted by Matteo Mattei ~ 8th October 2008

To install imagemagick with PHP imagick extension on Linux CentOS you must follow these steps:

yum install ImageMagick.i386
yum install ImageMagick-devel.i386
pecl install imagick

If you have an error like this:
root@myhost [~]# pecl install imagick
downloading imagick-3.0.1.tgz ...
Starting to download imagick-3.0.1.tgz (93,920 bytes)
.....................done: 93,920 bytes
13 source files, building
running: phpize
Configuring for:
PHP Api Version: 20090626
Zend Module Api No: 20090626
Zend Extension Api No: 220090626
Please provide the prefix of Imagemagick installation [autodetect] :
building in /var/tmp/pear-build-root/imagick-3.0.1
running: /root/tmp/pear/imagick/configure --with-imagick
checking for egrep... grep -E
checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /bin/sed
checking for cc... cc
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... configure: error: cannot run C compiled programs.
If you meant to cross compile, use `--host'.
See `config.log' for more details.
ERROR: `/root/tmp/pear/imagick/configure --with-imagick' failed

Look at your /tmp folder… pretty surely it is mounted with noexec flag. Remount it without noexec and retry:
mount -o remount,rw /tmp

At the end of the installation, create an inclusion file for imagick.so module and restart apache:

echo "extension=imagick.so" > /etc/php.d/imagick.ini
/etc/init.d/httpd restart

Test the correct loading of the imagick module with:
php -m | grep imagick

12 Comments

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  4. andrea

    It worked! Thank you

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  5. Job

    Using this method.. no need to edit the php.ini?

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    • Matteo Mattei

      You don’t need to edit php.ini directly.
      The module inclusion is done in /etc/php.d/imagick.ini

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  6. Curtis

    Just went through this. Just a note for those on CentOS 5.6 (probably more), you’ll want to run ‘yum install ImageMagick-devel’ (for some reason yum install ImageMagick-devel.i386 didn’t work) to avoid the following error: ‘configure: error: not found. Please provide a path to MagickWand-config or Wand-config program.’

    Also, incase you don’t have it, if pecl doesn’t work, run ‘yum install php-pear’. I know, noobish, but pertinent.

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  7. yandalf

    @Curtis Just install ImageMagick from source and re-try pecl install.

    Reply
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  10. Parikshit

    Hello,
    I am running the command but as soon as I run it, it is giving me a weird error:

    pecl install imagick
    downloading imagick-3.0.1.tgz …
    Starting to download imagick-3.0.1.tgz (93,920 bytes)
    ………………done: 93,920 bytes
    13 source files, building
    running: phpize
    grep: /usr/include/php/main/php.h: No such file or directory
    grep: /usr/include/php/Zend/zend_modules.h: No such file or directory
    grep: /usr/include/php/Zend/zend_extensions.h: No such file or directory
    Configuring for:
    PHP Api Version:
    Zend Module Api No:
    Zend Extension Api No:
    cp: cannot stat `mkdep.awk’: No such file or directory
    cp: cannot stat `scan_makefile_in.awk’: No such file or directory
    cp: cannot stat `shtool’: No such file or directory
    cp: cannot stat `libtool.m4′: No such file or directory
    cp: cannot stat `acinclude.m4′: No such file or directory
    cp: cannot stat `Makefile.global’: No such file or directory
    cp: cannot stat `config.sub’: No such file or directory
    cp: cannot stat `config.guess’: No such file or directory
    cp: cannot stat `ltmain.sh’: No such file or directory
    cp: cannot stat `run-tests*.php’: No such file or directory
    cat: acinclude.m4: No such file or directory
    cat: ./build/libtool.m4: No such file or directory
    /usr/bin/phpize: line 154: /usr/lib64/php/build/phpize.m4: No such file or directory
    chmod: cannot access `/var/tmp/imagick/build/shtool’: No such file or directory
    shtool at ‘/var/tmp/imagick/build/shtool’ does not exist or is not executable.
    Make sure that the file exists and is executable and then rerun this script.

    ERROR: `phpize’ failed.

    Can anyone help me with this issue?

    Thanks for looking.

    Parikshit

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  11. Matteo Mattei

    Parikshit, you need to install also autoconf and m4 to fix your issue.

    Reply