1&1 ImageMagick Install Procedure

I ran across a few people asking how to get ImageMagick installed on their 1&1 account, so I thought I would follow up my post about my own success, with the instructions on how to do it.

Keep in mind, I have the Developer Package, which grants me shell access, and you’ll need this to install imagemagick.

To install ImageMagick, first log in to your server with SSH. From the command line first download and unzip the source:

$> wget ftp://ftp.imagemagick.org/pub/ImageMagick/ImageMagick.tar.gz
$> tar -xzvf ImageMagic.tar.gz

Change into the ImageMagick source directory (this represents the version number as of this writing):

$> cd ImageMagick-6.2.6

The following commands will install ImageMagik into your home directory. –without-perl and –without-ttf will disable perl and TrueType support; without these switches the install will fail. /path/to/your/htdocs/im should be replaced with the actual path to your home directory, and the last part, im, can be changed to anything. The command “pwd” will tell you the present working directory.

$> ./configure –prefix=/path/to/your/htdocs/im –without-perl –without-ttf
$> make
$> make install

When these steps are completed ImageMagick will be installed in your home directory. Please note that since this is a non-standard location, you may have to modify the configuration of other programs that use it so that they can find it. Any executables will also not be on the default executable search path.