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What is ImageMagick?

ImageMagick is a software suite for image manipulation and display, supporting close to 100 image formats, it is mainly used to perform various transformation and conversion operations on images.


How To Install ImageMagick:

Get and uncompress ImageMagick:
# wget ftp://ftp.imagemagick.org/pub/ImageMagick/ImageMagick.tar.gz
# gunzip -c ImageMagick.tar.gz tar xvf -

Configure and compile ImageMagick:
# cd ImageMagick-6.x.x
# ./configure make

As root you can install it:
# make install

You can test is using thata command:
# /usr/local/bin/convert logo: logo.gif