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ImageMagick


Information about the package, ImageMagick, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The ImageMagick package is designed for, An X application for displaying and manipulating images.


Package Name:

ImageMagick

Summary:

An X application for displaying and manipulating images

Description:

ImageMagick is an image display and manipulation tool for the X Window System. ImageMagick can read and write JPEG, TIFF, PNM, GIF, and Photo CD image formats. It can resize, rotate, sharpen, color reduce, or add special effects to an image, and when finished you can either save the completed work in the original format or a different one. ImageMagick also includes command line programs for creating animated or transparent .gifs, creating composite images, creating thumbnail images, and more. ImageMagick is one of your choices if you need a program to manipulate and display images. If you want to develop your own applications which use ImageMagick code or APIs, you need to install ImageMagick-devel as well.

Architecture:

x86_64

Version:

6.7.2.7

Release:

6.el6

Size:

7.0 M

Repository:

installed

From Repository:

base

Licence:

ImageMagick



Handy Yum Commands for ImageMagick


Control the ImageMagick package with the following handy commands outlined below.


Command

Description of Command

yum install ImageMagick

This command will install ImageMagick on the server.

yum remove ImageMagick

This command will un-install ImageMagick on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove ImageMagick, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y remove ImageMagick

This command will un-install ImageMagick on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove ImageMagick when using the -y flag.

yum update ImageMagick

This command will update ImageMagick to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove ImageMagick, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y update ImageMagick

This command will update ImageMagick to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove ImageMagick when using the -y flag.

yum info ImageMagick

This command will show you core information about the ImageMagick package.

yum deplist ImageMagick

This command will show you the dependencies for ImageMagick. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.

yum check-update ImageMagick

This command will check if there is an update waiting on ImageMagick. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.