Download and install ImageMagick 7.0.2-1 on Ubuntu 16.04 Systems. Apt-Get command to install Imagemagick on Ubuntu. ImageMagick is a software suite to create, edit, compose, or convert bitmap images. It can read and write images in a variety of formats (over 200) including PNG, JPEG, JPEG-2000, GIF, TIFF, DPX, EXR, WebP, Postscript, PDF, and SVG. Use ImageMagick to resize, flip, mirror, rotate, distort, shear and transform images, adjust image colors, apply various special effects, or draw text, lines, polygons, ellipses and Bézier curves.
ImageMagick 7.0.x-x changelog
- Added support for GROUP4 compression to the FAX coder
- Distort no longer converts grayscale image to sRGB
- Don’t return a zero bounding box for QueryMultilineFontMetrics()
- Backoff finite precision epsilon
- Fix drawing glitch for stroke widths greater than 2
- Deny indirect reads by policy, remove policy to permit, e.g., convert caption:@mytext.txt …
- RLE check for pixel offset less than 0
- Properly initialze PES blocks
- Fix small memory leak
- Coder path traversal is not authorized
- Turn off alpha channel for the compare difference image
- Support configure script –enable-pipes option to enable pipes (|) in filenames.
- Support configure script –enable-indirect-reads option to enable indirect reads (@) in filenames
Install ImageMagick 7.0.2-1 on Ubuntu
Run the following commands in Terminal to install ImageMagick 7.0.2-1 on Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 15.01, Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.04 and other Ubuntu Derivatives:
wget http://www.imagemagick.org/download/ImageMagick.tar.gz
tar -xvf ImageMagick.tar.gz
cd ImageMagick-7.*
./configure
make
sudo make install
sudo ldconfig /usr/local/lib
Once installed, start ImageMagick by running “display” (without quotes) in Terminal