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Installing GMagick PHP extension with WebP support

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Bjørn Rosell edited this page May 7, 2021 · 3 revisions

See: https://github.com/rosell-dk/webp-convert/issues/37

MX-19.4

I succeeded by simply doing the following after installing graphicsmagick, libwebp and libwebp-dev:

sudo apt install php-gmagick
sudo service apache2 restart

Note: For some reason this disables the imagick extension. It seems they cannot both be installed at the same time.

Ubuntu 18.04, using PECL

In Ubuntu 18.04, you will not have to do any special steps in order to compile with webp :)

  1. Find out which version of PHP you are using and the location of the relevant php.ini file. Both of these can be obtained with phpinfo();
  2. Find out which is the latest version of gmagick on pecl. https://pecl.php.net/package/gmagick
  3. Do the following - but alter to use the info you just collected
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install graphicsmagick gcc libgraphicsmagick1-dev php-pear php7.2-dev
sudo pecl install gmagick-2.0.5RC1
sudo echo "extension=gmagick.so" >> /etc/php/7.2/apache2/php.ini
sudo service apache2 restart

Notes:

  • The php-pear contains pecl.
  • php7.2-dev provides phpize, which is needed by pecl. Use php7.1-dev, if you are on PHP 7.1
  • We do not simply do a pecl install gmagick because the latest package is in beta, and pecl would not allow. You should however be able to do pecl install gmagick-beta, which should install the latest beta.
  • If you are on fpm, remember to restart that as well (ie sudo service php7.2-fpm restart)

Plesk

https://support.plesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/115003511013-How-to-install-Gmagick-PHP-extension-on-Ubuntu-Debian-

From source

https://duntuk.com/how-install-graphicsmagick-gmagick-php-extension

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