Install ImageMagick from source on Amazon Linux

ImageMagick-Amazon-Linux.md

I needed a newer version of ImageMagick than is available on the yum packages on Amazon Linux. I tried using the remi repo but it failed with dependency errors. Here is what I did to install ImageMagick with support for PNG, JPG, and TIFF.

download the most recent package

wget http://www.imagemagick.org/download/ImageMagick.tar.gz

uncomress the package

tar -vxf ImageMagick.tar.gz

install the devel packages for png, jpg, tiff. these are dependencies of ImageMagick

sudo yum -y install libpng-devel libjpeg-devel libtiff-devel

configure ImageMagick without X11. this is a server without a display (headless) so we don't need X11

cd ImageMagick
./configure --without-x
make && make install

mission complete.

If anyone doesn't wanna compile then you can follow this process to install it via rpm packages.

sudo yum install libpng-devel libjpeg-devel libtiff-devel libwebp-devel giflib-devel

Download these files

sudo yum install ImageMagick-c++-devel-7.0.10-0.x86_64.rpm ImageMagick-c++-7.0.10-0.x86_64.rpm ImageMagick-devel-7.0.10-0.x86_64.rpm ImageMagick-7.0.10-0.x86_64.rpm ImageMagick-libs-7.0.10-0.x86_64.rpm fribidi-1.0.2-1.el7.x86_64.rpm fribidi-devel-1.0.2-1.el7.x86_64.rpm

files can be downloaded from here
https://imagemagick.org/download/linux/CentOS/x86_64/
https://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=fribidi*&submit=Search+...&system=centos&arch=

@raj-chef I tried the approach you mentioned. Looks like the binaries available are one version up.
On my end the rpms are not installing. I get the error below. Ideas?

$ uname -a
Linux ip-<some ip addr>.amzn1.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Jan 10 10:40:32 UTC 2021 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

$ sudo yum install ImageMagick-libs-7.0.11-1.x86_64.rpm
...
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Package: ImageMagick-libs-7.0.11-1.x86_64 (/ImageMagick-libs-7.0.11-1.x86_64)
           Requires: libIlmImf-2_2.so.22()(64bit)
Error: Package: ImageMagick-libs-7.0.11-1.x86_64 (/ImageMagick-libs-7.0.11-1.x86_64)
           Requires: libwebp.so.7()(64bit)
Error: Package: ImageMagick-libs-7.0.11-1.x86_64 (/ImageMagick-libs-7.0.11-1.x86_64)
           Requires: libwebpmux.so.3()(64bit)
Error: Package: ImageMagick-libs-7.0.11-1.x86_64 (/ImageMagick-libs-7.0.11-1.x86_64)
           Requires: libpng16.so.16()(64bit)
Error: Package: ImageMagick-libs-7.0.11-1.x86_64 (/ImageMagick-libs-7.0.11-1.x86_64)
           Requires: libgs.so.9()(64bit)
Error: Package: ImageMagick-libs-7.0.11-1.x86_64 (/ImageMagick-libs-7.0.11-1.x86_64)
           Requires: libraqm.so.0()(64bit)
Error: Package: ImageMagick-libs-7.0.11-1.x86_64 (/ImageMagick-libs-7.0.11-1.x86_64)
           Requires: libIex-2_2.so.12()(64bit)
Error: Package: ImageMagick-libs-7.0.11-1.x86_64 (/ImageMagick-libs-7.0.11-1.x86_64)
           Requires: libIlmThread-2_2.so.12()(64bit)
Error: Package: ImageMagick-libs-7.0.11-1.x86_64 (/ImageMagick-libs-7.0.11-1.x86_64)
           Requires: libpng16.so.16(PNG16_0)(64bit)
Error: Package: ImageMagick-libs-7.0.11-1.x86_64 (/ImageMagick-libs-7.0.11-1.x86_64)
           Requires: libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0()(64bit)
Error: Package: ImageMagick-libs-7.0.11-1.x86_64 (/ImageMagick-libs-7.0.11-1.x86_64)
           Requires: libHalf.so.12()(64bit)
Error: Package: ImageMagick-libs-7.0.11-1.x86_64 (/ImageMagick-libs-7.0.11-1.x86_64)
           Requires: libImath-2_2.so.12()(64bit)
Error: Package: ImageMagick-libs-7.0.11-1.x86_64 (/ImageMagick-libs-7.0.11-1.x86_64)
           Requires: librsvg-2.so.2()(64bit)
Error: Package: ImageMagick-libs-7.0.11-1.x86_64 (/ImageMagick-libs-7.0.11-1.x86_64)
           Requires: libraw_r.so.19()(64bit)
Error: Package: ImageMagick-libs-7.0.11-1.x86_64 (/ImageMagick-libs-7.0.11-1.x86_64)
           Requires: libIexMath-2_2.so.12()(64bit)
Error: Package: ImageMagick-libs-7.0.11-1.x86_64 (/ImageMagick-libs-7.0.11-1.x86_64)
           Requires: libwebpdemux.so.2()(64bit)
Error: Package: ImageMagick-libs-7.0.11-1.x86_64 (/ImageMagick-libs-7.0.11-1.x86_64)
           Requires: libopenjp2.so.7()(64bit)
 You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
 You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest
 
  

I'm just amazed that this post from 7 years ago is still alive. Thanks for everyone continuing to post updated solutions.

Not exactly helping people who insist on ImageMagick, but still may help someone reaching this thread:

I use GraphicsMagick npm pkg with ImageMagick for resizing and converting images in Elastic Beanstalk nodejs.

Locally on macos the code successfully resizes/converts jpg, png, webp formats.

Same code deployed on AWS Elastic Beanstalk: JPEG/PNG formats convert successfully, however WEBP images are identified as PAM images, essentially breaking the ability to resize/convert them.

I consulted AWS support and eventually discovered a work around: dropping GM's ImageMagick mode .subClass({imageMagick: true} and not installing ImageMagick. After that, my nodejs instance worked correctly will the mentioned image formats.