I tried to do some Image Magick with PHP recently on an Ubuntu Feisty machine, and even though I had the required package: 'php5-imagick' installed, and I updated my php.ini with imagick.so, I kept getting the error Class 'Imagick' not found. This is how I eventually fixed it.

The idea is to fall back to the good old PECL installation:

sudo aptitude install make php5-dev php-pear
sudo aptitude remove php5-imagick
sudo aptitude install libmagick9-dev
sudo pecl install imagick
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

And don't forget to put your imagick.so in your php.ini!
Well, that did it for me. No need for a long article this time, but this may help others experiencing similar problems.

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#25. joop on 02 September 2011

thanks!

#24. Bill B on 15 June 2011

I tried the listed commands, and double checked that php5-dev was installed and:

# pecl install imagick
...

... [more] running: phpize
Cannot find config.m4.
Make sure that you run '/usr/bin/phpize' in the top level source directory of the module

ERROR: `phpize' failed

#23. Iyngaran Iyathurai on 14 February 2011

Great work. This article help me to sort the issue.

#22. Kevin on 12 August 2010

@ Marek: That sounds very specific and you should just take it up with your provider.

#21. Marek on 02 August 2010

How does one enter the binary information in PHP script as my web site provider does compile IM with PHP. I have it installed on the server but need to reference the installation location in PHP somehow. Any clues?