Can't install php-imagick on Amazon Linux 2 for PHP 7.4

Question

When I try to run sudo yum install php-imagick

I'm getting this response:

Loaded plugins: extras_suggestions, langpacks, priorities, update-motd
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299 packages excluded due to repository priority protections
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package php-pecl-imagick.x86_64 0:3.4.4-10.el7.remi.7.4 will be installed
--> Processing Dependency: libMagickCore-6.Q16.so.6()(64bit) for package: php-pecl-imagick-3.4.4-10.el7.remi.7.4.x86_64
--> Processing Dependency: libMagickWand-6.Q16.so.6()(64bit) for package: php-pecl-imagick-3.4.4-10.el7.remi.7.4.x86_64
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Package: php-pecl-imagick-3.4.4-10.el7.remi.7.4.x86_64 (remi-php74)
           Requires: libMagickCore-6.Q16.so.6()(64bit)
Error: Package: php-pecl-imagick-3.4.4-10.el7.remi.7.4.x86_64 (remi-php74)
           Requires: libMagickWand-6.Q16.so.6()(64bit)
 You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
 You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest

Server is on Amazon Linux 2 and PHP version is 7.4.7

Answer 1

This is the cleanest way I found of doing it (under PHP 7.4 on Amazon Linux AMI 2):

sudo yum -y install php-pear php-devel gcc ImageMagick ImageMagick-devel
sudo bash -c "yes '' | pecl install -f imagick"
sudo bash -c "echo 'extension=imagick.so' > /etc/php.d/imagick.ini"

If you're using php-fpm , don't forget to restart it:

sudo systemctl restart php-fpm.service

Answer 2

I finally got it working. Here are the commands that I used. First setup Amazon linux to use php7.4

sudo yum install -y amazon-linux-extras
sudo amazon-linux-extras disable php7.2
sudo amazon-linux-extras disable lamp-mariadb10.2-php7.2
sudo amazon-linux-extras enable php7.4

Now install PHP and some additional libs

sudo yum clean metadata
# The following line may not be needed, but it was part of my script
sudo yum -y install php-cli php-pdo php-fpm php-json php-mysqlnd php-xml php-mbstring php-soap php-gd
sudo yum -y install php-pear php-devel gcc 
sudo yum -y install ImageMagick ImageMagick-devel ImageMagick-perl
sudo pecl install imagick
sudo chmod 755 /usr/lib64/php/modules/imagick.so

Add extension=imagick.so to the Dynamic Extensions section of the file.

sudo vi /etc/php.ini

Answer 3

My repository is firstly designed for RHEL and CentOS.

In version 7.8 , ImageMagick was rebased to 6.9.10 , and php-pecl-imagick requires, at least, this new version.

So looks like Amazon is still late behind.

You can enable "remi" repository , which provides latest version (6.9.11-28 for now)

# yum --enablerepo=remi,remi-php74 install php-pecl-imagick

For memory, this was tracked as #144