# ImageMagick - Install on Redhat 9 from Source

### Installing ImageMagick 7 from Source Code

To install ImageMagick from source, you need a proper development environment with a compiler and related development tools. If you don’t have the required packages on your system, install development tools as shown:

```bash
sudo yum groupinstall 'Development Tools'
sudo yum -y install bzip2-devel freetype-devel libjpeg-devel libpng-devel libtiff-devel giflib-devel zlib-devel ghostscript-devel djvulibre-devel libwmf-devel jasper-devel libtool-ltdl-devel libX11-devel libXext-devel libXt-devel lcms-devel libxml2-devel librsvg2-devel OpenEXR-devel php-devel
```

Now, download the latest version of the ImageMagick source code using the following [wget command](https://www.tecmint.com/10-wget-command-examples-in-linux/) and extract it.

```bash
sudo wget https://www.imagemagick.org/download/ImageMagick.tar.gz
sudo tar xvzf ImageMagick.tar.gz
```

Configure and compile the ImageMagick source code. Depending on your server hardware specs, this may take some time to finish.

```bash
sudo cd ImageMagick*
sudo ./configure
sudo make
sudo make install
```

Verify that the ImageMagick compile and install were successful.

```bash
sudo magick -version
```

<table border="1" id="bkmrk-version%3A-imagemagick" style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;"><colgroup><col style="width: 99.881%;"></col></colgroup><tbody><tr><td>Version: ImageMagick 7.0.8-28 Q16 x86\_64 2019-02-19 https://imagemagick.org  
Copyright: © 1999-2019 ImageMagick Studio LLC  
License: https://imagemagick.org/script/license.php  
Features: Cipher DPC HDRI OpenMP   
Delegates (built-in): bzlib djvu fontconfig freetype jng jpeg lzma openexr pangoca</td></tr></tbody></table>