Installing Imagemagick, bc and yum on centos

Server Config
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I have been persuaded to install Image magick on a centos server; I know nothing about servers or Centos !

I have some instructions and have had a trawl around the net:

I need to turn safe mode off - edit php.ini file and restart.
Looking at the Apache page there are quite a few ways I can do it. Another site says:

  1. Login to your Web server machine using SSH or telnet.
  2. Su to root - IS THIS ssh root@website.com ?
  3. Run the apache control program:
    apachectl graceful
  4. You can also run the apache control program in this way:
    apachectl restart

I have to install python-iniparse, yum and imagemagick and these steps all look straight forward unless something goes wrong.

Finaly I need to install/activate bc math which I can not find any instructions for.

Has anyone any comments or a site which explains this sort of thing in laymans terms ?

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Yum is normally installed by default on centos.
You should be able to install it via yum

yum install ImageMagick

else you’ll have to install from source which takes a couple steps http://www.imagemagick.org/script/install-source.php#unix

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Thanks for the reply and as you say yum is installed; I have found Imagemagick is installed but version 6.2.8 but I need a newer version and it it is not being found by php for some reason.

I have followed some other instructions by another IM forum member here: http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/api/#building
But the problem I am having now is that where do I put the file to be read by:

sudo rpm -Uhv --force --nodeps  ImageMagick-6.6.0-0.i386.rpm

Note bc is installed as I used bc --version to find it all I need to do now is the php.ini bit

4

Sorted the php.ini file as well now and the only problem is updating as 6.2.8 seems to be the latest version for Centos. This version is probably about 2 years old !

5

Well Imagemagick installed OK BUT php can not see it and finds the old 6.0.7 version.
I pressume there must be a path problem.

Anyway its a bit scary pressing the enter button and seeing all this code polling across the screen :confused:

Anyway still looking for some good tutorials or a book recomendation.

6

locate mogrify

should give you an idea where there are imagmagick binaries (normally /usr/bin, might also be /usr/local/bin)
you can tell which is which by e.g

/usr/bin/mogrify -version

or

which mogrify

It may be the case you need to recompile the imagick php extension which is referencing the older binary

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You can get newer version of imagmagick for centos by using rpm
have a look at http://andrewduck.name/2009/01/imagemagick-64x-on-centos-5/

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Thanks for the help EastCoast; I think my main problem is the person who setup the original server has about 3 /usr/bin/ paths.

When I do which convert the path comes out as /usr/bin/ but looking in each one I can not find it.

Anyway I will report back when I finaly sort it.

P.S. This could help me if I new how the path part was worked out:

By default, ImageMagick is installs binaries in /…/usr/local/bin, libraries in /…/usr/local/lib, header files in /…/usr/local/include and documentation in /…/usr/local/share. You can specify an alternative installation prefix other than /…/usr/local by giving configure the option --prefix=PATH. This valuable in case you don’t have privileges to install under the default paths or if you want to install in the system directories instead.

9

About to give up and gave it one last chance and Imagemagick was installed but would still not work.

I found I had been installing on one server using Putty with details I was given but the website was actualy on a different server and thats why the version was not updating :nono:

10

Ouch, that’s got to be a painful mistake!

Glad that you finally got it sorted, though.