How do you install php imagick?

1. Install PHP Imagick

To use Imagick with PHP 7 in your server, you can easily achieve it with the following command:

sudo apt-get install php-imagick

2. Verify if imagick has been loaded as an extension (optional)

You can verify if imagick has been loaded as an extension with the following command:

php -m | grep imagick

This should output imagick in your terminal.

3. Restart apache

As last step, you will need to restart the apache service after the installation of Imagick, otherwise you won’t be able to use the Imagick class in your PHP code. Restart the apache service using the following command:

sudo service apache2 restart