How To Install imagemagick on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install imagemagick on Kali Linux. imagemagick is image manipulation programs – binaries

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install imagemagick on Kali Linux.

What is imagemagick

imagemagick is:

ImageMagick is a software suite to create, edit, and compose bitmap images. It can read, convert and write images in a variety of formats (over 100) including DPX, EXR, GIF, JPEG, JPEG-2000, PDF, PhotoCD, PNG, Postscript, SVG, and TIFF. Use ImageMagick to translate, flip, mirror, rotate, scale, shear and transform images, adjust image colors, apply various special effects, or draw text, lines, polygons, ellipses and B?zier curves. All manipulations can be achieved through shell commands as well as through an X11 graphical interface (display).

This package include links to channel depth specific binaries and manual pages.

This is a dummy package. You can safely purge or remove it.

There are three methods to install imagemagick on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install imagemagick Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install imagemagick using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install imagemagick

Install imagemagick Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install imagemagick using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install imagemagick

Install imagemagick Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install imagemagick using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install imagemagick

How To Uninstall imagemagick on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the imagemagick package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove imagemagick

Uninstall imagemagick And Its Dependencies

To uninstall imagemagick and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove imagemagick

Remove imagemagick Configurations and Data

To remove imagemagick configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge imagemagick

Remove imagemagick configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove imagemagick configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge imagemagick

Dependencies

imagemagick have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install imagemagick package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.