---
title: Installing Imagick in Valet
date: 2020-01-14T13:56:00-05:00
author: John Morton
canonical_url: "https://supergeekery.com/blog/installing-imagick-in-valet"
section: Blog
---
# Installing Imagick in Valet

*January 14, 2020* by John Morton

Whenever I update to new versions of PHP in my local installation, I need to reinstall Imagick. Since I look up these steps every time, I'm documenting them here so future me can remember this.

## Is Imagick really not installed?

First you might have it installed on your machine. Does this return a version number?

```
convert -version
```

If so, you have it installed but it might not be wired up for your PHP version. Check that out with this command.

```
php -i | grep Imagick
```

If you see references to Imagick, you've already got it installed and configured for PHP to use it. If not, let's install it.

## If you didn't have Imagick installed at all, install it with Homebrew like this:

```
brew install imagemagick
```

Now the following should return a version number:

```
convert -version
```

You now have it but it's not "hooked up" to your PHP installation. We use `pecl` to do that.

```
pecl install imagick
```

Now you'll need to restart Valet.

```
valet restart
```

## Check your work

```
php -i | grep Imagick
```

Do you see references to Imagick? If so, you've done it.

Let the image magic begin.