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To install Imagick, you would normally do this via PECL.

sudo pecl install imagick

However, when trying this on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, you may get an error similar to the following.

checking ImageMagick MagickWand API configuration program...
configure: error: not found. Please provide a path to MagickWand-config or Wand-config program

You can resolve this by installing a few extra packages.

sudo apt-get install libmagickwand-dev libmagickcore-dev

Now try re-running the original command and it should be successful.

If you’re running MAMP and you’ve finally managed to get the Imagick extension to add ImageMagick support compiled, the battle may not be over yet. There are more things you need to do. You might get an error similar to the following.

Firstly, imagick.so was probably installed into the sytem’s PHP extension directory. So you might need to copy this into MAMP’s directory. Don’t just copy and paste the code below as you need to check the paths are correct for your system.

php -i | grep extension_dir
cp /usr/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20090626/imagick.so
/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.3.6/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20090626/

Secondly, some of the libraries are out of date. You might get an error like the following.

[01-Jun-2012 08:46:22] PHP Warning:  PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 
'/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.3.6/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20090626/imagick.so'
 - dlopen(/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.3.6/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20090626/imagick.so, 9): Library not loaded: /opt/local/lib/libjpeg.8.dylib
  Referenced from: /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.3.6/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20090626/imagick.so
  Reason: Incompatible library version: imagick.so requires version 13.0.0 or later,
but libjpeg.8.dylib provides version 12.0.0 in Unknown on line 0
[01-Jun-2012 08:51:54] PHP Warning:  PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.3.6/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20090626/yaml.so' - dlopen(/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.3.6/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20090626/yaml.so, 9):
image not found in Unknown on line 0

We can solve this by editing a configuration file.

sudo vim /Applications/MAMP/Library/bin/envvars

Comment out the first two lines below and add the last one.

#DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH="/Applications/MAMP/Library/lib:$DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH"
#export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH
export PATH="$PATH:/opt/local/bin"

This should override out of date libraries such as libjpeg. If you’re still having problems, you can manually copy in the freetype library too.

cp /opt/local/lib/libfreetype.6.dylib /Applications/MAMP/Library/lib/

Though in theory this step should not be required. Restart Apache and you should see Imagick appear on the phpinfo() output.

Trying to get ImageMagick and it’s PHP extension working on OS X Lion is a frustrating process. It will often fail and even if you try to configure it manually you may get an error like the following.

checking ImageMagick MagickWand API configuration program...
configure: error: not found. Please provide a path to MagickWand-config or Wand-config program.

First of all, install ImageMagick via MacPorts.

sudo port install ImageMagick

Now install the imagick PECL module.

sudo pecl install imagick

Very importantly however, make sure you specify the path when prompted, to be /opt/local, do not let it auto detect! Once this is done it should compile successfully and you will be prompted to add imagick.so to your php.ini file.