ext-imagick * -> the requested PHP extension imagick is missing from your system

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I have trouble installing devisephp for laravel. I am working on the latest version of homestead with php7. when i do composer update i get the following error.

Problem 1
    - Installation request for devisephp/cms 1.4.* -> satisfiable by devisephp/cms[1.4.0].
    - devisephp/cms 1.4.0 requires ext-imagick * -> the requested PHP extension imagick is missing from your system.

After having this message i installed imagick on my homestead environment added the extension to php.ini in cli and fpm and checked in homestead if imagick is working with a test file. Everything was working perfectly but on running composer update i still get the same error message from above. Does anyone have a clue what the problem can be.

The stange thing is that is kan git clone devisephp its bootstrap version completely working including image handling but when i add another package to laravel i again get the above message.

SO `php -v` will output PHP 7.0.* and `php -m | grep imagick` will output `imagick`? — Bogdan, Mar 06 '16 at 20:17

score 25 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 09 '19 at 05:45

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if you really can't install or don't want that extension to be validated you may skip it by supplying the

--ignore-platform-reqs

flag to your composer command

answered Mar 09 '19 at 05:45

Roman86

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Wow, I wish I had found this a long time ago. Would have saved me a lot of pain -- I sometimes need to composer-install packages just to have my local PHPStorm play ball, but I don't need them to actually work locally. I just need the code completion / intellisense benefits. – TKoL Mar 19 '20 at 15:22
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This option helped me while struggling to find a solution for extension issue. Many thanks. – Rajitha Bandara Jul 28 '20 at 10:48
One can also use the `config.platform` setting to fake the dependency: https://stackoverflow.com/a/67919544/814031 – marcus Jul 24 '21 at 20:32

score 16 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 04 '19 at 11:20

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Please follow these steps

sudo apt-get install php-imagick
php -m | grep imagick // this should print 'imagick' it means installed correctly
sudo service apache2 restart //(if needed)

answered Oct 04 '19 at 11:20

Isha

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 09 '19 at 05:51

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Try adding:

"ext-imagick": "*",

to your require block in your composer.json like so:

"license": "MIT",
"require": {
    "ext-imagick": "*",
    ....
}

and run composer update

answered Mar 09 '19 at 05:51

Tofunmi

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Jun 10 '21 at 10:40

With the config.platform key in composer.js you can fake dependencies like php versions or extensions (you can't use an asterisk for the extension version, though!) https://getcomposer.org/doc/06-config.md#platform

As a bonus, you can polyfill ext-imagick with this library: https://github.com/calcinai/php-imagick. it's not complete and relies on the command line ImageMagick. So far it works for me.

{
    "require": {
        "calcinai/php-imagick": "dev-master"
    },
    "config": {
      "platform":{
        "ext-imagick": "3.4.4"
        }
    }
}

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Jun 04 '23 at 17:35

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In case you are using Mac, here are the steps:

Install Image Magick dependency.

brew install pkg-config imagemagick
Compile Imagick PHP extension with pecl

pecl install imagick
Verify the installation.

php -m | grep -i magic

You will see imagick.

answered Jun 04 '23 at 17:35

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ext-imagick * -> the requested PHP extension imagick is missing from your system

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