ImageMagick Binary Distributions

This page documents how to download and install the binary distribution packages built by ImageMagick Studio, as found in the ImageMagick 'binaries' subdirectory of ImageMagick ftp sites. Those who prefer to build ImageMagick from source code should refer to the source code installation guide.

Unix/Linux/Darwin/Cygwin Install

Download the appropriate binary from ftp://ftp.imagemagick.org/pub/ImageMagick/binaries or a mirror site.

The available Unixish binaries are shown in the following table:

  Package Name | Description
  --- | ---
  ImageMagick-alphaev6-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz | Linux on Compaq Alpha processor
  ImageMagick-i686-pc-cygwin.tar.gz | Cygwin environment for Microsoft Windows
  ImageMagick-i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar.gz | Red-Hat Linux for Pentium II
  ImageMagick-mips-sgi-irix6.5.tar.gz | SGI IRIX
  ImageMagick-powerpc-apple-darwin5.5.tar.gz | Mac OS X "Darwin"
  ImageMagick-sparc-sun-solaris2.9.tar.gz | Solaris SPARC (requires 64-bit kernel)

Create (or choose) a directory to install the package into and cd to that directory, for example:

mkdir $HOME/ImageMagick

cd $HOME/ImageMagick

Extract the contents of the package using the command

gzip -dc /path/to/package.tar.gz | tar -xf -

If the 'bin' subdirectory of the extracted package is not already in your executable search path, add it to your PATH environment variable. For example

export PATH="$HOME/ImageMagick:PATH"

Test ImageMagick to see if it is working

convert LOGO: logo.miff

display logo.miff

ImageMagick tries to automatically find its components, but occasionally it may fail. If an error is displayed that a file can not be found, you may need to set the MAGICK_HOME environment variable to specify path where you extracted the ImageMagick files. For example

export MAGICK_HOME="$HOME/ImageMagick"

## Additional Information

### Environment Variables:

In addition to the MAGICK_HOME environment variable described above, you may find these variables useful:

  Variable Name | Description
  --- | ---
  MAGICK_HOME | Path to ImageMagick installation directory (directory above 'bin' directory).
  Megabytes of memory available to pixel cache
  MAGICK_FONT_PATH | Directory containing Truetype and/or Postscript Type 1 font files.
  TMPDIR | Path to store temporary files
  LD_LIBRARY_PATH | Path to find libMagick.so and other shared libraries

### Configuration Files

ImageMagick depends on a number of external configuration files which include colors.mgk, delegates.mgk, magic.mgk, type.mgk, and modules.mgk. ImageMagick searches for configuration files in the following order, and will use the first file found:

<client path>/../lib/ImageMagick/

$MAGICK_HOME/lib/ImageMagick/

$HOME/.magick/

<current directory>/

### Font Files

ImageMagick is able to load raw TrueType and Postscript font files. It searches for these files in the following order and uses the first match found:

<current directory>/

$MAGICK_FONT_PATH/

$MAGICK_HOME/

$HOME/.magick/

### Module Files

ImageMagick's file format support is usually provided in the form of loadable modules. It searches for loadable modules in the following order and it uses the first match found:

<client path>/../lib/ImageMagick/modules/coders/

$MAGICK_HOME/lib/ImageMagick/modules/coders/

$HOME/.magick/

<current directory>/

XP, Win2K, WinME, NT, Win98, Win95 Install

Download

ftp://ftp.imagemagick.org/pub/ImageMagick/binaries/ImageMagick-5.4.9-i686-pc-windows.exe

and execute it from the Windows Command Shell, double-click from Windows Explorer, or just "open" it from your browser, to start the installation program.

Once ImageMagick is installed, Select Start->Programs->Command Prompt. In the Command Prompt window type

convert logo: logo.miff

imdisplay logo.miff

If you have an X11 server and would like to test ImageMagick with it, from the Command Prompt window type

set DISPLAY=:0

display

Macintosh MacOS 9 Installation

> Note, if you are using MacOS-X ("Darwin") please refer to the Unix installation instructions.

Download

ftp://ftp.imagemagick.org/pub/ImageMagick/binaries/ImageMagick-powerpc-apple-mac9.2.sit

and double click on it to extract the distribution. Move to the ImageMagick folder and double click on the convert program icon. Next, type

-verbose logo: logo.jpg

in the command window and choose File->Quit to exit.

VMS Installation

> There is no binary package available for VMS.

Type

unzip ImageMagick-5.4.8.zip

set default [.imagemagick]

@make

identify -verbose logo:

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