Laravel-medialibrary: Why am I forced to install Imagick?

[bbashy]

- spatie/pdf-to-image 1.6.0 requires ext-imagick * -> the requested PHP extension imagick is missing from your system.
- spatie/laravel-medialibrary 6.6.9 requires spatie/pdf-to-image ^1.2 -> satisfiable by spatie/pdf-to-image[1.6.0].

README says "For the creation of thumbnails of svg's or pdf's you should also install Imagick." but I'm not doing any of that.

[freekmurze]

Thanks for reporting this.

spatie/pdf-to-image should go in the suggested packages in composer.json to solve this. Unfortunately doing this is a breaking change. I'll do this in the upcoming v7 of the package.

Meanwhile you can install the package by adding it to composer.json and then running

composer install --ignore-platform-reqs

Please let me know if you have any better ideas on how to solve this without breaking BC.

[cviebrock]

I think you forgot to do this for v7. spatie/pdf-to-image is still listed as a requirement, not a suggestion. ☹️

[freekmurze]

Damn, forgot about this one. Tempted to move it to the suggestions right now, but I'm afraid this breaking change would cause a lot of havoc in production systems of current users of v7.

[cviebrock]

Maybe re-open this so you don't forget for v8? ;)

[freekmurze]

I promise I'll take a look at this in v8. 🙏

[freekmurze]

The dependency has been moved to the suggestions on the v8 branch 👍

https://github.com/spatie/laravel-medialibrary/commit/eb5091da6cb239a2f0adb10310a1e9471664e304