Install ImageMagick on Ubuntu

ImageMagick is a popular open-source software that allows you to manipulate digital images in almost every way and supports more than 200 image formats!!

The chances that ImageMagick has already been installed on your Ubuntu system are pretty high as many other software use it as a dependency. Verify it with:

convert -version

Yes. ImageMagick is a CLI tool and it is used as convert, not imagemagick in the terminal. That’s where a lot of users make mistake.

If you see the “convert command not found” error, you can install ImageMagick using this command in Ubuntu:

sudo apt install imagemagick

But it may not give you the latest version. Let’s see how to get ImageMagick in detail and how to install the latest version from the source code.

Installing ImageMagick on Ubuntu

If getting the most recent version is not your primary concern, you can use the default repository of Ubuntu to install a bit older but comparatively more stable version than the most recent one.

Method 1: Install from software center (GUI method)

Open Ubuntu Software center.

sudo apt install imagemagick

convert -version

It should bring something similar to this:

I strongly advise against removing ImageMagick. It is often installed automatically as a dependency for other software packages. Unless you have a solid reason, don’t uninstall it. You have been fairly advised.

To remove ImageMagick, use this command.

sudo apt remove imagemagick* -y

sudo apt install build-essential make git

Once you’re done with dependencies, you can proceed to the further part that involves downloading ImageMagick from Git.

git clone https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick.git

And change your working directory to ImageMagick:

cd ImageMagick

./configure

how to install and uninstall packages from source code.

make

sudo make install

After the installation process, let’s configure the run-time dynamic linking of ImageMagick:

sudo ldconfig /usr/local/lib

convert -version

cd ImageMagick

And then use the given command for uninstallation:

sudo make uninstall

convert -version

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