Celeb Glow
general | April 03, 2026

Where is my Imagemagick installed?

I tried to locate it with locate imagemagickMy result is this :

/etc/bash_completion.d/imagemagick
/usr/lib/mime/packages/imagemagick
/usr/share/doc/imagemagick
/usr/share/doc/imagemagick-common
/usr/share/doc/imagemagick/NEWS.Debian.gz
/usr/share/doc/imagemagick/README.Debian
/usr/share/doc/imagemagick/README.txt.gz
/usr/share/doc/imagemagick/TODO.Debian
/usr/share/doc/imagemagick/changelog.Debian.gz
/usr/share/doc/imagemagick/copyright
/usr/share/doc/imagemagick-common/NEWS.Debian.gz
/usr/share/doc/imagemagick-common/changelog.Debian.gz
/usr/share/doc/imagemagick-common/copyright
/usr/share/menu/imagemagick
/var/cache/apt/archives/imagemagick-common_8%3a6.6.9.7-5ubuntu3.2_all.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/imagemagick_8%3a6.6.9.7-5ubuntu3.2_amd64.deb
/var/lib/dpkg/info/imagemagick-common.conffiles
/var/lib/dpkg/info/imagemagick-common.list
/var/lib/dpkg/info/imagemagick-common.md5sums
/var/lib/dpkg/info/imagemagick.list
/var/lib/dpkg/info/imagemagick.md5sums
/var/lib/dpkg/info/imagemagick.postinst
/var/lib/dpkg/info/imagemagick.postrm

So which is the path of imagemagick now :( ? I need it to link to it in my mediawiki extension. Any help is upvoted fast !

i gues it's this :

 /usr/lib/mime/packages/imagemagick

but how can I check, or how can I know that ?

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2 Answers

Regarding to this list of files:

You should use this values.

$wgImageMagickConvertCommand = /usr/bin/convert
$wgImageMagickIdentifyCommand = /usr/bin/identify
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MediaWiki's own page states that you need to specify paths to specific binaries, i.e.

$wgImageMagickConvertCommand = '/usr/bin/convert'

etc.

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