Installing ImageMagick with JPEG and PNG Support

ImageMagick is a set of command-line tools for manipulating image files. By default it supports GIF but not the other command interweb formats of JPG (JPEG) and PNG. These are the steps I followed to install ImageMagick on an Amazon EC2 Fedora core-4 Linux image.

This process is also described at Installing ImageMagick with JPEG, TIFF and PNG Support, but I had some problems with a couple of the commands there, it was using files older than the current, and it included TIFF support which I don't expect to be using.

The first step was to get the required source files for each of the components required. These are the files I retrieved, and the web addresses were I retrieved them. (Note, the exact version numbers change over time.) Each of the .tar.gz files I downloaded and copied to the /usr/local/src directory of my EC2 linux system.

• ImageMagick.tar.gz from http://imagemagick.org/script/install-source.php#unix
• libpng-1.2.23.tar.gz from http://libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html
• jpegsrc.v6b.tar.gz from http://www.ijg.org/files/
• zlib-1.2.3.tar.gz from http://www.zlib.net/

from my linux image I then performed these commands (and in this order) to unpack, compile, and install the components and ImageMagick.

1. cd /usr/local/src
2. gunzip -c zlib-1.2.3.tar.gz | tar xvf -
3. rm zlib-1.2.3.tar.gz
4. cd zlib-1.2.3
5. ./configure
6. make
7. make install
8. cd /usr/local/src
9. gunzip -c libpng-1.2.23.tar.gz | tar xvf -
10. rm libpng-1.2.23.tar.gz
11. cd libpng-1.2.23
12. ./configure
13. make
14. make install
15. cd /usr/local/src
16. gunzip -c jpegsrc.v6b.tar.gz | tar xvf -
17. rm jpegsrc.v6b.tar.gz
18. cd jpeg-6b
19. ./configure --enable-shared
20. make
21. make install
    [may need to create man directories]
22. cd /usr/local/src
23. gunzip -c ImageMagick.tar.gz | tar xvf -
24. rm ImageMagick.tar.gz
25. cd ImageMagick-6.3.7
26. ./configure
    [verify that jpeg and png are on]
27. make
28. make install

Now run a simple test to see that ImageMagick is working

1. cd /
2. identify –list Format
   [verify that jpeg and png are on]
3. convert logo: logo.gif
4. convert logo: logo.jpg
5. convert logo: logo.png
   [verify with separate viewer that this images are all OK]
   

That's it. The ImageMagick command are now ready.