Update/Install ImageMagick on CentOS 5 and CentOS 6
Today I had a classic example of what happens when you do not RTFM. I had to install ImageMagick on a webserver running CentOS 5 with cPanel. First I simply ran "yum install imagemagick", which did install ImageMagick just fine.
Now, the reason I had to install it was to do a batch resize of about 20,000 images and place the resized images in a new directory. So I did:
# mogrify -resize 250 -quality 70 -path /home/somesite/public_html/image/thumbs/ -format jpg /home/somesite/public_html/images/*
To my surprise I got the error message:
After a quick google search, I realized that yum installed a super old version that was not supporting the -path option?!
So, after some more searching, I found this great guide on how to Install ImageMagick 6.6.5 and followed the instructions. But when I got to the final installation command, I got a dependencies error?!
After another google search, I came across a forum post saying "Make sure that RPMForge repository is installed first, and then everything works."… and when I looked back at the guide, I realized that it did in fact tell me to do that. The reason I did not see it was because it was a one liner with a link to another website, and I was expecting to be able to simply copy paste commands, so I skipped reading that line. I did not RTFM properly…
So, to make it easy for the future, I will combine these two pages, in order to have a step by step set of instructions without having to go to another website 
Before starting, make you sure you know whether you are using a 32-bit or 64-bit system.
# uname -i
x86_64 would be 64-bit
OK, here we go!
1. Uninstall ImageMagick
# rpm -e --nodeps ImageMagick.i386 ImageMagick-devel.i386 ImageMagick.x86_64 ImageMagick-devel.x86_64
this actually didn't work for me, so I did:
# yum remove imagemagick
2. Add the EPEL repository to yum:
CentOS 6:
# rpm -Uvh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
CentOS 5:
# rpm -Uvh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm
3. Download and Install RPMforge (Check here for newer version.)
CentOS 6:
Download RPMforge for 32-bit systems: rpmforge-release-0.5.3-1.el6.rf.i686.rpm
# wget http://pkgs.repoforge.org/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.3-1.el6.rf.i686.rpm
Download RPMforge for 64-bit systems: rpmforge-release-0.5.3-1.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm
# wget http://pkgs.repoforge.org/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.3-1.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm
Install DAG's GPG key:
# rpm --import http://apt.sw.be/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt
error: http://apt.sw.be/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt: key 1 import failed.
Verify the package you have downloaded:
# rpm -K rpmforge-release-0.5.3-1.el6.rf.*.rpm
Install RPMforge:
# rpm -i rpmforge-release-0.5.3-1.el6.rf.*.rpm
CentOS 5:
Download RPMforge for 32-bit systems: rpmforge-release-0.5.3-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm
# wget http://pkgs.repoforge.org/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.3-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm
Download RPMforge for 64-bit systems: rpmforge-release-0.5.3-1.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm
# wget http://pkgs.repoforge.org/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.3-1.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm
Install DAG's GPG key:
# rpm --import http://apt.sw.be/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt
error: http://apt.sw.be/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt: key 1 import failed.
Verify the package you have downloaded
# rpm -K rpmforge-release-0.5.3-1.el5.rf.*.rpm
Install RPMforge
# rpm -i rpmforge-release-0.5.3-1.el5.rf.*.rpm
4. Install dependencies for ImageMagick 6.6
For 32-bit systems:
# yum install djvulibre OpenEXR jasper ghostscript librsvg2 libwmf libtool-ltdl
For 64-bit systems:
# yum install djvulibre OpenEXR jasper ghostscript librsvg2.x86_64 libwmf.x86_64 libtool-ltdl.x86_64
Systems running CentOS 6 will need the old version of libtool-ltdl installed:
For 32-bit systems:
# rpm -ivh --force ftp://ftp.muug.mb.ca/mirror/centos/5.9/os/i386/CentOS/libtool-ltdl-1.5.22-7.el5_4.i386.rpm
For 64-bit systems:
# rpm -ivh --force ftp://ftp.muug.mb.ca/mirror/centos/5.9/os/x86_64/CentOS/libtool-ltdl-1.5.22-7.el5_4.x86_64.rpm
5. Download and Install ImageMagick 6.6.5
Download for 32-bit systems: ImageMagick-6.6.5-10.i386.rpm
# wget http://www.lassosoft.com/_downloads/public/Lasso_Server/CentOS-Extra/ImageMagick-6.6.5-10.i386.rpm
Download for 64-bit systems: ImageMagick-6.6.5-10.x86_64.rpm
# wget http://www.lassosoft.com/_downloads/public/Lasso_Server/CentOS-Extra/ImageMagick-6.6.5-10.x86_64.rpm
Install ImageMagick
# rpm -ivh ImageMagick-6.6.5*
DONE! 
9725
Thanks!!!!! With this solve this problem with mediawiki
Error al crear miniatura: sh: wmf2eps: command not found
convert: Delegate failed `”wmf2eps” -o “%o” “%i”‘ @ delegate.c/InvokeDelegate/1032.
convert: unable to open image `/tmp/magick-XX8sbY6P’: No such file or directory @ blob.c/OpenBlob/2480.
convert: unable to load module `/usr/lib64/ImageMagick-6.5.4/modules-Q16/coders/svg.la’: file not found @ module.c/OpenModule/1168.
convert: unable to open file `/tmp/magick-XX8sbY6P’: No such file or directory @ constitute.c/ReadImage/542.
That’s great!
Thanks for your comment and for adding the error messages you got. Hopefully others searching for this wikimedia error will find the solution here now.
This works! Thank you so much.
For the libtool, the above link did not work for me, used instead:
rpm -ivh –force http://vault.centos.org/5.4/updates/x86_64/RPMS/libtool-ltdl-1.5.22-7.el5_4.x86_64.rpm
Hi Guys,
What these error means?
root@it [~]# rpm -ivh ImageMagick-6.6.5*
error: Failed dependencies:
libHalf.so.4 is needed by ImageMagick-6.6.5-10.i386
libIex.so.4 is needed by ImageMagick-6.6.5-10.i386
libIlmImf.so.4 is needed by ImageMagick-6.6.5-10.i386
libImath.so.4 is needed by ImageMagick-6.6.5-10.i386
Thanks,
Do this: yum install bzip2-devel freetype-devel libjpeg-devel libpng-devel libtiff-devel giflib-devel zlib-devel ghostscript-devel djvulibre-devel libwmf-devel jasper-devel libtool-ltdl-devel libX11-devel libXext-devel libXt-devel lcms-devel libxml2-devel librsvg2-devel OpenEXR-devel
Then try again.
I’m still getting this error. Any ideas.
Can’t load ‘/usr/local/lib64/perl5/auto/Image/Magick/Q16/Q16.so’ for module Image::Magick::Q16: libMagickCore-6.Q16.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory at /usr/lib64/perl5/DynaLoader.pm line 200.
at /usr/local/share/perl5/parent.pm line 16
Compilation failed in require at /usr/local/share/perl5/parent.pm line 16.
BEGIN failed–compilation aborted at /usr/local/lib64/perl5/Image/Magick.pm line 22.
Compilation failed in require at projects.cgi line 17.
BEGIN failed–compilation aborted at projects.cgi line 17.
&Image::Magick::Q16::constant not defined. The required ImageMagick libraries are not installed or not installed properly.
END failed–call queue aborted at projects.cgi line 17.
Thanks
If you have followed my steps from top to bottom, then I have no idea why you are getting that error. From what I read, you experienced a ImageMagick bug that had been fixed a long time ago, so it seems you have tried to installing the incorrect version. I would suggest to start over, and if it doesn’t work again, please post your issue into a forum. This comment section is not ideal for troubleshooting an individual issue. If you find out what the issue was, please do leave a comment to let us know how you were able to overcome it!
Good Luck!