Install recent ImageMagick on CentOS 6.3
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.6libIex.so.6libIlmImf.so.6libImath.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?
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!!
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).