How to install the latest version of Image Magick on your cPanel Server

Although most distributions contain a packaged version of ImageMagick it's often a old version lacking new features. This article will show you how to compile ImageMagick from source and have it's installed in the same location it would normally be in.

cd /usr/src
wget ftp://ftp.imagemagick.org/pub/ImageMagick/ImageMagick.tar.gz
tar zxvf ImageMagick.tar.gz
cd ImageMagick-X.X.X ### Replace the X's with the version that just extracted

./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-shared=yes
make
make install