Php: Unable to install imagick

Created on 8 Jun 2015 · 38Comments · Source: docker-library/php

I'm unable to install imagick. I'm always running into this error:

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

I've tried all solutions I could find on google, but without any success. Hope to have some luck here. These are the steps I've taken:

RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y imagemagick php5-imagick libpng-dev libmagickwand-dev
libmagickcore-dev && \
curl -L http://pecl.php.net/get/imagick-3.1.1.tgz >> /usr/src/php/ext/imagick.tgz && \
tar -xf /usr/src/php/ext/imagick.tgz -C /usr/src/php/ext/ && \
rm /usr/src/php/ext/imagick.tgz

RUN docker-php-ext-install imagick-3.1.2

Source

boedy

Most helpful comment

I would highly recommend against using Debian-packaged PHP bits with this image -- we don't provide the bits dpkg needs to know which version of PHP we've included, so it will likely end up pulling in Debian's php packages (which will either shadow the PHP we've installed or be ignored due to ours taking precedence).

I've just tested the following for installing imagick with php:5.6-apache successfully:

FROM php:5.6-apache

RUN apt-get update \
    && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
        libmagickwand-dev \
    && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*

RUN pecl install imagick-3.4.1 \
    && docker-php-ext-enable imagick

And again, with Alpine and PHP 7, for good measure:

FROM php:7-alpine

RUN set -x \
    && apk add --no-cache --virtual .phpize-deps $PHPIZE_DEPS imagemagick-dev libtool \
    && pecl install imagick-3.4.1 \
    && docker-php-ext-enable imagick \
    && apk add --no-cache --virtual .imagick-runtime-deps imagemagick \
    && apk del .phpize-deps

tianon on 27 Sep 2016

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All 38 comments

http://stackoverflow.com/q/14332539/433558 appears to be a report of this exact issue, and the solution in http://stackoverflow.com/a/14354912/433558 is working for me (ie, using pecl install imagick-beta instead of pecl install imagick):

FROM php:5
RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y libmagickwand-dev --no-install-recommends && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
RUN pecl install imagick-beta

tianon on 12 Jun 2015

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That seems to solve it. Thanks!

boedy on 14 Jun 2015

Somehow the extension is not loaded though.

only if I do it this way:

RUN apt-get install -y libmagickwand-dev --no-install-recommends && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*  && \
    curl -L https://pecl.php.net/get/imagick-3.3.0RC2.tgz >> /usr/src/php/ext/imagick.tgz && \
    tar -xf /usr/src/php/ext/imagick.tgz -C /usr/src/php/ext/ && \
    rm /usr/src/php/ext/imagick.tgz

RUN docker-php-ext-install imagick-3.3.0RC2

I've added imagick.so to the php.ini file, but that didn't seem to work.

Does docker-php-ext-install do something extra besides creating a .ini file?

boedy on 14 Jun 2015

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Yes, that would be https://github.com/docker-library/php/blob/ae130b2f845162fbf84da0ffad07d7a64eff57cd/docker-php-ext-install#L44-L57 (which isn't perfect, but it works OK).

So, you probably just need to add something like this:

RUN echo 'extension=rmagick.so' > /usr/local/etc/php/conf.d/ext-rmagick.ini

I've contemplated adding a docker-php-ext-enable, but I'm not sure whether that'd really be useful since it's essentially just that one-liner. Perhaps our docs section about how to use docker-php-ext-install should be followed by a section about how to use PECL appropriately instead. :+1:

tianon on 19 Jun 2015

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:+1:

boedy on 22 Jun 2015

I had troubles getting this to work. In the end I found the following snipplet used by a Wordpress Dockerfile that did work.

RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y libmagickwand-6.q16-dev --no-install-recommends \
 && ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ImageMagick-6.8.9/bin-Q16/MagickWand-config /usr/bin \
 && pecl install imagick \
 && echo "extension=imagick.so" > /usr/local/etc/php/conf.d/ext-imagick.ini

If this could be abstracted away into am docker-php-ext-install imagemagick that would be awesome! Not sure how the mechanism works though.

roelvanduijnhoven on 10 Aug 2015

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It's worth pointing out here that https://github.com/docker-library/php/pull/122 did add docker-php-ext-enable and that imagick has been updated, so I've just tested the following Dockerfile to be working successfully:

FROM php:5
RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y libmagickwand-dev --no-install-recommends && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
RUN pecl install imagick && docker-php-ext-enable imagick

root@f1a53d21c435:/# php -i | grep magic
Additional .ini files parsed => /usr/local/etc/php/conf.d/docker-php-ext-imagick.ini
libmagic => 517
imagick
imagick module => enabled
imagick module version => 3.3.0
imagick classes => Imagick, ImagickDraw, ImagickPixel, ImagickPixelIterator, ImagickKernel
Imagick compiled with ImageMagick version => ImageMagick 6.8.9-9 Q16 x86_64 2015-01-05 http://www.imagemagick.org
Imagick using ImageMagick library version => ImageMagick 6.8.9-9 Q16 x86_64 2015-01-05 http://www.imagemagick.org
imagick.locale_fix => 0 => 0
imagick.progress_monitor => 0 => 0
imagick.skip_version_check => 0 => 0

tianon on 18 Jan 2016

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Is installing imagick on PHP 7 not possible?

7.0.0

FROM php:7.0.0-fpm

# Install Imagick.
RUN apt-get-update && apt-get install -y \
    libmagickwand-dev
RUN pecl install imagick
RUN docker-php-ext-enable imagick

 ---> Running in 793875575c01
pecl/imagick is not compatible with PHP version 7.0.0
No valid packages found
install failed
Removing intermediate container 793875575c01

7.0.3

FROM php:7.0.3-fpm

# Install Imagick.
RUN apt-get-update && apt-get install -y \
    libmagickwand-dev
RUN pecl install imagick
RUN docker-php-ext-enable imagick

Step 5 : RUN pecl install imagick
 ---> Running in ee9f8c037810
pecl/imagick requires PHP (version >= 5.1.3, version <= 7.0.0, excluded versions: 7.0.0), installed version is 7.0.3
No valid packages found
install failed
Removing intermediate container ee9f8c037810

AustinMaddox on 12 Feb 2016

@AustinMaddox, that looks like an issue with imagick itself; they don't yet support php7 in their releases, but there is a branch in their code that would work, but I am not sure how stable it is since it is not yet in a regular release. The branch is here https://github.com/mkoppanen/imagick/tree/phpseven and it looks like there is info on installing it in https://github.com/mkoppanen/imagick/issues/129. There is an RC6 release.

yosifkit on 12 Feb 2016

There's a 3.4.1 release of imagick now which seems to work fine with PHP7. I was able to install it with

FROM php:7.0.3-fpm
RUN apt-get update \
    && apt-get -y install \
            libmagickwand-dev \
        --no-install-recommends \
    && pecl install imagick \
    && docker-php-ext-enable imagick \
    && rm -r /var/lib/apt/lists/*

mikehaertl on 14 Mar 2016

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I'm trying this on Alpine Linux and it doesn't work 😢

FROM php:7.0-fpm-alpine

RUN apk add --update imagemagick-dev \
    && pecl install imagick \
    && docker-php-ext-enable imagick

Have you a solution for Alpine Linux ?

fgirardey on 30 Jun 2016

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@fgirardey, did you also apk add --no-cache any other dependencies? The alpine variant is kept extremely minimal, so you would need to add in any tools like autoconf or a C compiler. I think the full set you would need is:

$ apk add --no-cache autoconf gcc g++ imagemagick-dev libtool make

To save final image space, you should also be able to remove most of them in the same RUN once the extension is compiled.

yosifkit on 30 Jun 2016

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@yosifkit it absolutely solved my problem 😊

my finale image is like that :

FROM php:7.0-fpm-alpine

MAINTAINER Florian GIRARDEY <[email protected]>

RUN apk add --update freetype-dev libpng-dev libjpeg-turbo-dev libxml2-dev autoconf g++ imagemagick-dev libtool make \
    && docker-php-ext-install gd \
    && docker-php-ext-configure gd \
        --with-gd \
        --with-freetype-dir=/usr/include/ \
        --with-png-dir=/usr/include/ \
        --with-jpeg-dir=/usr/include/ \
    && docker-php-ext-install mbstring \
    && docker-php-ext-install mysqli \
    && docker-php-ext-install opcache \
    && docker-php-ext-install soap \
    && pecl install imagick \
    && docker-php-ext-enable imagick \
    && apk del autoconf g++ libtool make \
    && rm -rf /tmp/* /var/cache/apk/*

fgirardey on 4 Jul 2016

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@fgirardey You want to run docker-php-ext-install gd _after_ you ran docker-php-ext-configure gd ….

franz-josef-kaiser on 24 Jul 2016

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@franz-josef-kaiser Oh yeah you are right, it wasn't working.

Now it seems to be better, thanks a lot :

FROM php:7.0-fpm-alpine

MAINTAINER Florian GIRARDEY <[email protected]>

# install the PHP extensions we need
RUN apk add --update freetype-dev libpng-dev libjpeg-turbo-dev libxml2-dev autoconf g++ imagemagick-dev libtool make \
    && docker-php-ext-configure gd \
        --with-gd \
        --with-freetype-dir=/usr/include/ \
        --with-png-dir=/usr/include/ \
        --with-jpeg-dir=/usr/include/ \
    && docker-php-ext-install gd \
    && docker-php-ext-install mbstring \
    && docker-php-ext-install mysqli \
    && docker-php-ext-install opcache \
    && docker-php-ext-install soap \
    && pecl install imagick \
    && docker-php-ext-enable imagick \
    && apk del autoconf g++ libtool make \
    && rm -rf /tmp/* /var/cache/apk/*

fgirardey on 5 Aug 2016

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I use this way to install imagick for php:5 and other solution not work for me!

FROM php:5.6-apache

MAINTAINER Ali Mihandoost <[email protected]> 

COPY . /var/www/html/

RUN apt-get update \
  && DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get install -y php5-imagick --no-install-recommends \
  && php5enmod imagick
  && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*

AliMD on 26 Sep 2016

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@AliMD, I am hesitant to recommend that way, since the php5-imagick package from Debian may not work with the version of PHP that the container has.

yosifkit on 27 Sep 2016

I've just tested the following for installing imagick with php:5.6-apache successfully:

FROM php:5.6-apache

RUN apt-get update \
    && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
        libmagickwand-dev \
    && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*

RUN pecl install imagick-3.4.1 \
    && docker-php-ext-enable imagick

And again, with Alpine and PHP 7, for good measure:

FROM php:7-alpine

RUN set -x \
    && apk add --no-cache --virtual .phpize-deps $PHPIZE_DEPS imagemagick-dev libtool \
    && pecl install imagick-3.4.1 \
    && docker-php-ext-enable imagick \
    && apk add --no-cache --virtual .imagick-runtime-deps imagemagick \
    && apk del .phpize-deps

tianon on 27 Sep 2016

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Closing, given that the original issue appears to be fully resolved.

tianon on 27 Sep 2016

ProTip: Remember to export PHP's CFLAGS/CPPFLAGS/LDFLAGS before installing imagick-3.4.1

&& export CFLAGS="$PHP_CFLAGS" CPPFLAGS="$PHP_CPPFLAGS" LDFLAGS="$PHP_LDFLAGS" \

Otherwise improved ASLR and optimizations are not taken in count by the extension and therefore makes hardened PHP less safer than it should be.

pwnsdx on 7 Feb 2017

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@pwnsdx Better press Y when you want to link to some file. This gives you the exact commit as reference – else you are linking to a maybe moving target.

franz-josef-kaiser on 8 Feb 2017

@franz-josef-kaiser Noted :)

pwnsdx on 9 Feb 2017

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For PHP 7.1 you need imagick-3.4.3.

https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=72311

FROM php:7.1-fpm-alpine

RUN set -ex \
    && apk add --no-cache --virtual .phpize-deps $PHPIZE_DEPS imagemagick-dev libtool \
    && export CFLAGS="$PHP_CFLAGS" CPPFLAGS="$PHP_CPPFLAGS" LDFLAGS="$PHP_LDFLAGS" \
    && pecl install imagick-3.4.3 \
    && docker-php-ext-enable imagick \
    && apk add --no-cache --virtual .imagick-runtime-deps imagemagick \
    && apk del .phpize-deps

heygrady on 17 Mar 2017

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Same as above comment (PHP 7.1 you need imagick-3.4.3) but for debian based Dockerfile. I took tianon (Tianon Gravi)'s solution with pwnsdx (Sabri)'s pro tip for improved ASLR and optimizations in a single layer:

FROM php:7.1-fpm

RUN export CFLAGS="$PHP_CFLAGS" CPPFLAGS="$PHP_CPPFLAGS" LDFLAGS="$PHP_LDFLAGS" \
    && apt-get update \
    && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
        libmagickwand-dev \
    && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* \
    && pecl install imagick-3.4.3 \
    && docker-php-ext-enable imagick

🚀

GabLeRoux on 30 Nov 2017

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Its works for me too ... on php 7.2

FROM php:7.2-fpm

RUN export CFLAGS="$PHP_CFLAGS" CPPFLAGS="$PHP_CPPFLAGS" LDFLAGS="$PHP_LDFLAGS" \
    && apt-get update \
    && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
        libmagickwand-dev \
    && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* \
    && pecl install imagick-3.4.3 \
    && docker-php-ext-enable imagick

felipemarques on 13 Sep 2018

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Can confirm @heygrady solution worked for me on php:7.2-alpine3.8.

bensquire on 24 Oct 2018

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Solved

alpine3.8 php 7.0 7.1 tested
https://gist.github.com/ptflp/5cc7ff386ed3338bac4033ec13c339e9

ptflp on 12 Dec 2018

Has anyone experience with php:7.2-apache

I tried the following

RUN export CFLAGS="$PHP_CFLAGS" CPPFLAGS="$PHP_CPPFLAGS" LDFLAGS="$PHP_LDFLAGS" \
&& apt-get update \
&& apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
libmagickwand-dev \
&& rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* \
&& pecl install imagick-3.4.3 \
&& docker-php-ext-enable imagick

It seems that it was installed:

php -i | grep imagick
Additional .ini files parsed => /usr/local/etc/php/conf.d/docker-php-ext-imagick.ini,
imagick
imagick module => enabled
imagick module version => 3.4.3
imagick classes => Imagick, ImagickDraw, ImagickPixel, ImagickPixelIterator, ImagickKernel
imagick.locale_fix => 0 => 0
imagick.progress_monitor => 0 => 0
imagick.skip_version_check => 0 => 0

But when I type "which convert" e.g nothing returns.

fischkopp on 11 Jan 2019

If you want the convert command (which is not a PHP command nor is it even related to PHP), you need to install a package which provides it. In Debian Stretch, that's graphicsmagick-imagemagick-compat or imagemagick-6.q16 (as can be seen on https://packages.debian.org/stretch/imagemagick).

tianon on 12 Jan 2019

I ran into some problems trying to install Imagick to a CircleCI container. Specifically, a cryptic Exited with code 141 error:

The solution was to ignore the error with || true.

In total, installation looks like this:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y libmagickwand-dev --no-install-recommends
yes '' | sudo pecl install imagick || true
sudo docker-php-ext-enable imagick

danielbachhuber on 14 Feb 2019

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This solution works like a charm for PHP5.

RUN export CFLAGS="$PHP_CFLAGS" CPPFLAGS="$PHP_CPPFLAGS" LDFLAGS="$PHP_LDFLAGS" \
    && apt-get update \
    && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
        libmagickwand-dev \
    && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* \
    && pecl install imagick-3.3.0 \
    && docker-php-ext-enable imagick

However, the image build fails when I try to target a specific Imagick beta version (3.2.0RC1, I am trying to reproduce as faithfully as possible our production environment). It would seem like the MagickWand is not compatible (?):

checking ImageMagick MagickWand API configuration program... configure: error: not found. Please provide a path to MagickWand-config or Wand-config program.
ERROR: /tmp/pear/temp/imagick/configure --with-php-config=/usr/local/bin/php-config --with-imagick' failed
The command '/bin/sh -c export CFLAGS="$PHP_CFLAGS" CPPFLAGS="$PHP_CPPFLAGS" LDFLAGS="$PHP_LDFLAGS"     && apt-get update     && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends         libmagickwand-6.q16-dev     && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*     && pecl install imagick-3.2.0RC1     && docker-php-ext-enable imagick' returned a non-zero code: 1

albaad on 14 May 2019

#Install imagemagick:
ENV MAGICK_HOME=/usr
RUN apk --no-cache update \
    && apk --no-cache upgrade \
  && apk add --update freetype-dev libpng-dev libjpeg-turbo-dev libxml2-dev autoconf g++ imagemagick-dev imagemagick libtool make \
    && docker-php-ext-configure gd \
        --with-gd \
        --with-freetype-dir=/usr/include/ \
        --with-png-dir=/usr/include/ \
        --with-jpeg-dir=/usr/include/ \
    && docker-php-ext-install gd \
    && docker-php-ext-install mbstring \
    && docker-php-ext-install mysqli \
    && docker-php-ext-install opcache \
    && docker-php-ext-install soap \
    && pecl install imagick \
    && docker-php-ext-enable imagick \
    && apk del autoconf g++ libtool make

Best solution php 7.3

llioor on 9 Dec 2019

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Just a side note: I recently added Alpine support to my install-php-extensions script: you can easily install the imagick PHP extension (as well as many other extensions) on Alpine & Debian by running:

ADD https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mlocati/docker-php-extension-installer/master/install-php-extensions /usr/local/bin/

RUN chmod +x /usr/local/bin/install-php-extensions && sync && \
    install-php-extensions imagick

mlocati on 13 Dec 2019

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Putting all together, even avoiding the interactive shell of "autodetect" :

FROM php:7.2-fpm

RUN export CFLAGS="$PHP_CFLAGS" CPPFLAGS="$PHP_CPPFLAGS" LDFLAGS="$PHP_LDFLAGS" \
    && apt-get update -y \
    && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
        libmagickwand-dev \
    && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* \
    && yes '' | pecl install imagick-3.4.3|| true \
    && docker-php-ext-enable imagick

But still it does not work. May be my case is different : I have supervisord is the main process (PID 1) and there is no php-fpm is runnning... because the role of this container is to be queue worker only (php artisan queue:work ).
I am not sure which should i restart to make it work ?
OR should I hit php-fpm to start fpm process ? or no need ?

UPDATE :
Also you need to install gs or ghostscripts if you are converting from PDF to images.

  wget https://github.com/luvvien/resources/raw/master/ghostscript-9.22-linux-x86_64.tar.gz \
      && tar -xzvf ghostscript-9.22-linux-x86_64.tar.gz \
      && cd ghostscript-9.22-linux-x86_64 \
      && cp gs-922-linux-x86_64 /usr/local/bin/gs \
      && ln -s /usr/local/bin/gs /usr/bin/gs \
      && rm ../ghostscript-9.22-linux-x86_64.tar.gz \
      && rm -rf ghostscript-9.22-linux-x86_64