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organicveggie
Asked: 2012-11-08 12:44:50 +0800 CST

Install recent ImageMagick on CentOS 6.3

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I'm having a terrible time trying to get a recent version of ImageMagick installed on a CentOS 6.3 x86_64 server. First, I [downloaded] 1 the RPM from the ImageMagick site and tried to install it. That failed due to missing dependencies:

error: Failed dependencies:
    libHalf.so.4()(64bit) is needed by ImageMagick-6.8.0-4.x86_64
    libIex.so.4()(64bit) is needed by ImageMagick-6.8.0-4.x86_64
    libIlmImf.so.4()(64bit) is needed by ImageMagick-6.8.0-4.x86_64
    libImath.so.4()(64bit) is needed by ImageMagick-6.8.0-4.x86_64
    libltdl.so.3()(64bit) is needed by ImageMagick-6.8.0-4.x86_64

I have libtool-ltdl installed, but that includes libltdl.so.7, not libltdl.so.4. I have a similar problem with libHalf, libIex, libIlmImf and libImath. Typically, you can install OpenEXR to get those dependencies. Unfortunately, CentOS 6.3 includes OpenEXR 1.6.1, which includes ilmbase-devel 1.0.1. And that release of ilmbase-devel includes newer versions of those dependencies:

  • libHalf.so.6
  • libIex.so.6
  • libIlmImf.so.6
  • libImath.so.6

I next tried following the [instructions] 2 for installing ImageMagick from source. No luck there either. I get a build error:

RPM build errors:
  File not found by glob: /home/sean/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/ImageMagick-6.8.0-4.x86_64/usr/lib64/ImageMagick-6.8.0/modules-Q16/coders/djvu.*

I even re-ran configure to explicitly exclude djvu and I still get the same error. At this point, I'm pulling my hair out.

What's the easiest way to get a relatively recent version of ImageMagick (> 6.7) installed on CentOS 6.3? Does someone offer RPMs with dependencies somewhere?

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5 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    You shouldn't be having these problems... I tried to search for nice, canned binaries of a current version of ImageMagick. I couldn't find any that didn't have odd prerequisites...

    So I spun up a CentOS 6.3 virtual machine and built the newest ImageMagick SRPM file. You may want to enable the RepoForge repository (formerly RPMForge) as well. The build went without a hitch!

    System information:

    [root@MDMarra ~]# uname -a
Linux MDMarra.localdomain 2.6.32-279.11.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Oct 16 15:57:10 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[root@MDMarra ~]# cat /etc/issue
CentOS release 6.3 (Final)
Kernel \r on an \m

[root@MDMarra ~]# yum repolist
repo id                                       repo name                                                     status
base                                          CentOS-6 - Base                                                 6346
extras                                        CentOS-6 - Extras                                                  6
rpmforge                                      Red Hat Enterprise 6 - RPMforge.net - dag                       4453
update                                        CentOS-6 - Updates                                               820

    Begin the installation:

    [root@MDMarra ~]# wget http://imagemagick.mirrorcatalogs.com/linux/SRPMS/ImageMagick-6.8.0-4.src.rpm
[root@MDMarra ~]# yum install bzip2-devel freetype-devel libjpeg-devel libpng-devel libtiff-devel giflib-devel zlib-devel ghostscript-devel djvulibre-devel libwmf-devel jasper-devel libtool-ltdl-devel libX11-devel libXext-devel libXt-devel lcms-devel libxml2-devel librsvg2-devel OpenEXR-devel
[root@MDMarra ~]# rpmbuild --rebuild ImageMagick-6.8.0-4.src.rpm

    These files were generated:

    Processing files: ImageMagick-debuginfo-6.8.0-4.x86_64
Checking for unpackaged file(s): /usr/lib/rpm/check-files /root/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/ImageMagick-6.8.0-4.x86_64
Wrote: /root/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/ImageMagick-6.8.0-4.x86_64.rpm
Wrote: /root/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/ImageMagick-devel-6.8.0-4.x86_64.rpm
Wrote: /root/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/ImageMagick-djvu-6.8.0-4.x86_64.rpm
Wrote: /root/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/ImageMagick-doc-6.8.0-4.x86_64.rpm
Wrote: /root/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/ImageMagick-perl-6.8.0-4.x86_64.rpm
Wrote: /root/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/ImageMagick-c++-6.8.0-4.x86_64.rpm
Wrote: /root/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/ImageMagick-c++-devel-6.8.0-4.x86_64.rpm
Wrote: /root/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/ImageMagick-debuginfo-6.8.0-4.x86_64.rpm

    Install the package:

    rpm -ivh /root/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/ImageMagick-6.8.0-4.x86_64.rpm

    Check installed binaries:

    [root@MDMarra ~]# rpm -qlp /root/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/ImageMagick-6.8.0-4.x86_64.rpm| grep bin
/usr/bin/animate
/usr/bin/compare
/usr/bin/composite
/usr/bin/conjure
/usr/bin/convert
/usr/bin/display
/usr/bin/identify
/usr/bin/import
/usr/bin/mogrify
/usr/bin/montage
/usr/bin/stream

    Check the newly-installed package version number:

    [root@MDMarra ~]# /usr/bin/convert -version
Version: ImageMagick 6.8.0-4 2012-11-07 Q16 http://www.imagemagick.org
Copyright: Copyright (C) 1999-2012 ImageMagick Studio LLC
Features: OpenMP

    Enjoy!!

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  2. Since nobody mentioned a "hassle-free" alternative, I'm going to add a new answer.

    If you don't mind using non-official repositories, you can enable the Remi repo as described here http://blog.famillecollet.com/pages/Config-en. After that, just type

    yum install ImageMagick-last.x86_64 ImageMagick-last-devel.x86_64

    And you'll get one of the latest versions available, already packaged and with every dependency correctly resolved and handled by yum. No need to recompile anything.

    Note: It's not exactly up to date with the version you can find on the official website, but it seems to be no more than 1-2 months behind. For example, at the time of writing the latest official version is 6.8.8 (Jan 12, 2014) while the one I found on the remi repo is 6.8.7 (Dec 15, 2013).

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  3. I had this problem with CentOS 7.2 and ImageMagick 6.9.3-9. After much trial and error I discovered that 6.9.3-8 works, while 6.9.3-9 has dependencies that fail to resolve. Fortunately http://rpm.pbone.net/ found a repository with the older version.

    IMAGEMAGICK_VERSION=6.9.3-8
# Be warned, 6.9.3-9 does not work; dependencies fail to resolve
IMAGEMAGICK_LIBS_SHA1=c0919e4ef4b7edc1052ef40eef4cc34f7a86341c
IMAGEMAGICK_SHA1=f99eda483850dd116b08e5527d603be2a47db8c4

curl -O ftp://ftp.icm.edu.pl/vol/rzm4/ImageMagick/linux/CentOS/x86_64/ImageMagick-libs-$IMAGEMAGICK_VERSION.x86_64.rpm \
    && sha1sum ImageMagick-libs-$IMAGEMAGICK_VERSION.x86_64.rpm | grep $IMAGEMAGICK_LIBS_SHA1 \
    && yum install -y ImageMagick-libs-$IMAGEMAGICK_VERSION.x86_64.rpm \
    && rm ImageMagick-libs-$IMAGEMAGICK_VERSION.x86_64.rpm \
    && curl -O ftp://ftp.icm.edu.pl/vol/rzm4/ImageMagick/linux/CentOS/x86_64/ImageMagick-$IMAGEMAGICK_VERSION.x86_64.rpm \
    && sha1sum ImageMagick-$IMAGEMAGICK_VERSION.x86_64.rpm | grep $IMAGEMAGICK_SHA1 \
    && yum install -y ImageMagick-$IMAGEMAGICK_VERSION.x86_64.rpm \
    && rm ImageMagick-$IMAGEMAGICK_VERSION.x86_64.rpm
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  4. It looks like you'll need the following or at least some of the following:

    OpenEXR-devel.i686
OpenEXR-devel.x86_64
OpenEXR-libs.i686
OpenEXR-libs.x86_64

yum install OpenEXR-devel.i686 OpenEXR-libs.i686 OpenEXR-devel.x86_64 OpenEXR-libs.x86_64

    Installing all 4 shouldn't cause that much of a burden or increase in disk space usage, but those are the packages being returned when I searched on http://rpm.pbone.net/ for 'libHalf.so.4' or ' libIlmImf.so.4' for example.

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  5. If you need the development version of ImageMagicK installed as well, you can run:

    rpm -ivh /root/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/ImageMagick-devel-6.8.0-4.x86_64.rpm

    This step will be required if you plan to run the ImagicK (PHP) bindings. To install iMagicK type:

    pecl install imagick

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