Install latest version on Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty

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Install latest version on Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty

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Hi,

How do I go about installing the latest ImageMagick version on Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty?
apt-get install installs Version: ImageMagick 6.7.7-10 2018-06-11 Q16

Is there a safe PPA or other method, maybe from source to install the latest?

Thanks.
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Re: Install latest version on Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty

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I am not an expert on this. But you might want to try from source according to https://askubuntu.com/questions/1042436 ... gick-7-0-7
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Thanks , I was able to get 7.0.8-5 installed using these instructions: https://askubuntu.com/questions/745660/ ... 195#746195

My problem now is that build-dep installs an INSANE amount of packages and I want to remove those once imagemagick is installed. Do I just need the binaries in /usr/local/bin for imagemagick to work? Or do they depend on certain packages on the system?

Unfortunately you can't

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apt-get remove build-dep
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apt-cache showsrc imagemagick
is a rabbit hole of packages to someone like me.
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