How To Install ImageMagick and imagick PHP extension?

Copy and paste the following command into SSH.

Installing ImageMagick

yum -y install ImageMagick-devel ImageMagick-c++-devel ImageMagick-perl

Installing the ImageMagick PHP extensions for PHP versions 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 7.0 and 7.1

for phpver in $(ls -1 /opt/cpanel/ |grep ea-php | sed 's/ea-php//g') ; do
printf "\autodetect" | /opt/cpanel/ea-php$phpver/root/usr/bin/pecl install imagick
echo 'extension=imagick.so' >> /opt/cpanel/ea-php$phpver/root/etc/php.d/imagick.ini
done
/scripts/restartsrv_httpd
/scripts/restartsrv_apache_php_fpm

Test to make sure ImageMagick is installed:

usr/bin/convert --version

Test to make sure the PHP extensions loaded:

for phpver in $(ls -1 /opt/cpanel/ |grep ea-php | sed 's/ea-php//g') ; do
echo "PHP $phpver" ; /opt/cpanel/ea-php$phpver/root/usr/bin/php -m |grep imagick done

PHP 54 imagick
PHP 55 imagick
PHP 56 imagick
PHP 70 imagick
PHP 71 imagick

Updated on: 21/06/2022

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