I would like to update my version of ImageMagick. I originally installed ImageMagick with...
sudo apt-get imagemagick
Current Version:
myapp$ convert -version
Version: ImageMagick 6.7.7-10 2014-03-06 Q16 http://www.imagemagick.org
Copyright: Copyright (C) 1999-2012 ImageMagick Studio LLC
Features: OpenMP
Location:
myapp$ which convert
/usr/bin/convert
System: Ubuntu14.04 / Apache2.47 / Passenger 4.0.5.5 / Rails 4.1.1 / Ruby 2.1.5
I do not have brew installed. What is the advised way to update?
If you just want to install the latest version from the Ubuntu sources, use
sudo apt-get install --reinstall imagemagick
But it seems that your version is already the current one for Ubuntu 14.04. Upgrading to a newer Ubuntu version would also lead to a newer imagemagick package, see http://packages.ubuntu.com/wily/imagemagick
Alternatively, you can try a version that has been built for a later Ubuntu release, see e.g. https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/wily/+package/imagemagick. Download the deb-file suited for your machine architecture, and install it with
sudo dpkg -i filename.deb
apt-get install -f
However, it is not guaranteed by the Ubuntu developers that this mixing of packages for different Ubuntu versions will work well. But since this is only a single package, there is a good chance that it will work well.
Finally, you can also build it from the upstream sources, see