[IcyTexx]

This guide is made for Debian based Operating Systems such as Debian or Ubuntu.
You also will need your own Virtual Private Server (VPS) or Dedicated Server.

Installing ImageMagick:

Start by removing any old versions previously installed via apt-get:

sudo apt-get remove imagemagick

Then update apt-get and install some supporting packages:

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install libperl-dev gcc libjpeg62-dev libwmf-dev libz-dev libpng12-dev libx11-dev libxml2-dev libfreetype6-dev liblcms1-dev libexif-dev libltdl3-dev graphviz gs-gpl pkg-config

Use wget to grab the source from ImageMagick.org (ImageMagick.tar.gz).

wget ftp://ftp.imagemagick.org/pub/ImageMagick/ImageMagick.tar.gz

Once the source is downloaded, uncompress it:

tar -xzf ImageMagick.tar.gz

Now configure and make:

cd ImageMagick-6.5.0-0
./configure
make
sudo make install

Troubleshooting ImageMagick:

To avoid an error such as:

convert: error while loading shared libraries: libMagickCore.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Add the following line to ~/.bashrc:

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib

If you still get an error like the one above run ldconfig:

sudo ldconfig

You can confirm the install and available formats with:

identify -list format
and
convert -list configure

Installing Imagick Image Library (PHP):

Make sure u have pear installed:

apt-get install php-pear

Make sure you installed ImageMagick.
And then do:

pecl install imagick

When you've done that, you need to add this line to php.ini (in Ubuntu probably in /etc/php5/apache2/):

extension=imagick.so

Troubleshooting Imagick (PHP):

If you get an error like this:

configure: error: Cannot locate configuration program Wand-config

Either uninstall any ImageMagick installation you have and install it by this guide or run the following dommand:

apt-get install libmagick9-dev

And then re-run Imagick installation (above).

If you get an error:

sh: phpize: command not found
ERROR: `phpize' failed

Run:

apt-get install php5-dev

There you go!
Easy, isn't it?

This post has been edited by IcyTexx: 15 February 2010 - 05:20 PM