- 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
