Install Imagemagick on CentOS

1. Install required packages

Start off by installing the prerequisites

yum install gcc php-devel php-pear

php-pear: PHP pear extension

gcc: the GCC extension

php-devel: the PHP-devel extension

Issue the following to verify whether you have Imagemagick available via the current repositories

yum list ImageMagick*

You should see something similar to the result below:

Issue the following to install ImageMagick:

yum install ImageMagick ImageMagick-devel

Now install the imagick library for PHP:

pecl install imagick

Load the imagick extension into PHP:

echo extension=imagick.so > /etc/php.d/imagick.ini

Restart Apache

service httpd restart

To verify that imagick has been successfully installed, do any of the following

php -m | grep imagick

Or check your PHPINFO