installing imagemagick [closed]

I am unable to complete the installation of Imagemagick in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. Long story short, I have three packages of the latest Imagemagick packages showing in my Synaptic Package manager, including the binary package. Can I run the terminal to complete the installation? Do I need more updates, libraries, dependencies? Please help, it should not be this difficult to install and run Imagemagick.

Well, here are three images. Imagemagick2 is largely complete due to the limitations of the screenshot app.

However, the problem remains: even though everything seemed to have gone well, I still can't open and run Imagemagick. It's as if it's there, but I can't operate it.

2 Answers

You can install imagemagick on terminal using this command:

sudo apt install -y imagemagick

This will prompt you for your password to use root level access. (required for installing packages)

apt will automatically resolve and install any necessary dependencies automatically.

You can confirm it is installed with (version may be different):

$ convert --version
Version: ImageMagick 6.9.7-4 Q16 x86_64 20170114
Copyright: © 1999-2017 ImageMagick Studio LLC
License:
Features: Cipher DPC Modules OpenMP
Delegates (built-in): bzlib djvu fftw fontconfig freetype jbig jng jpeg lcms lqr ltdl lzma openexr pangocairo png tiff wmf x xml zlib

The correct package of imagemagick to install in Synaptic package manager in Ubuntu 18.04 is marked by the mouse cursor in the below screenshot. The imagemagick-6-common and imagemagick-6.16 packages are dependencies of imagemagick that were installed automatically when the imagemagick package was installed in Ubuntu 18.04.

Alternatively you can install imagemagick from the terminal with the following commands:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install imagemagick 

Run the command display from the terminal to launch the ImageMagick GUI.