ImageMagick PNG delegate install problems

Solution 1:

You are making things a little too hard for yourself, here is a quick and dirty guide that ran well for me on Trusty Tahr:

First pick up a few known dependencies:

sudo apt-get install build-essential checkinstall \
             libx11-dev libxext-dev zlib1g-dev libpng12-dev \
             libjpeg-dev libfreetype6-dev libxml2-dev

This does not quite catch everything so activate the Source repositories by clicking on 'Souce Code' here:

Dash >> Software & Updates >> Source Code

and then running the following:

sudo apt-get build-dep imagemagick

Create a build folder and change to it:

mkdir $HOME/imagemagick_build && cd $HOME/imagemagick_build

And finally download, extract, compile and install by simply copying and pasting the entire code box below into a Terminal window:

wget https://www.imagemagick.org/download/ImageMagick-7.0.8-28.tar.bz2 && \
tar xvf ImageMagick-7.0.8-28.tar.bz2 && cd ImageMagick-7.0.8-28 && ./configure && make && \
sudo checkinstall -D --install=yes --fstrans=no --pakdir "$HOME/imagemagick_build" \
     --pkgname imagemagick --backup=no --deldoc=yes --deldesc=yes --delspec=yes --default \
     --pkgversion "7.0.8-28" && \
make distclean && sudo ldconfig

And finally test this, looking especially for the png you are missing in your own install:

andrew@corinth:~$ identify -version
Version: ImageMagick 7.0.5-10 Q16 x86_64 2017-06-05 http://www.imagemagick.org
Copyright: Copyright (C) 1999-2017 ImageMagick Studio LLC
License: http://www.imagemagick.org/script/license.php
Features: Cipher DPC OpenMP 
Delegates (built-in): bzlib djvu fftw fontconfig freetype jbig jng jpeg lcms lqr lzma openexr pangocairo png tiff wmf x xml zlib
andrew@corinth:~$

And there is the png option you were missing :).

ImageMagick PNG delegate install problems

Solution 1:

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