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1. Install needed libraries

sudo yum install tcl-devel libpng-devel libjpeg-devel ghostscript-devel bzip2-devel freetype-devel libtiff-devel

2. Create a directory and download source.

mkdir imagemagick
cd /imagemagick
wget ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/imagemagick/ImageMagick-6.8.6-7.tar.gz

3. Untar the compressed file

tar zxvf ImageMagick-6.8.6-7.tar.gz
cd ImageMagick-6.8.6-7

4. Configure & Make & Install

sudo ./configure –prefix=/usr/ –with-bzlib=yes –with-fontconfig=yes –with-freetype=yes –with-gslib=yes –with-gvc=yes –with-jpeg=yes –with-jp2=yes –with-png=yes –with-tiff=yes
sudo make
sudo make install

5. To test if its running

$which convert  should show
/usr/bin/convert

or use below command to check version.

$ /usr/bin/convert –version
Version: ImageMagick 6.8.6-7 2013-07-30 Q16 http://www.imagemagick.org
Copyright: Copyright (C) 1999-2013 ImageMagick Studio LLC
Features: DPC OpenMP
Delegates: bzlib freetype gslib jng jpeg png ps tiff zlib

Note: If while using with rails it gives error related to “libMagickCore-6.Q16.so.1” then use below command to fix it.

$sudo ldconfig /usr/local/lib