wierd install imagemagic ?

[Roelzxr]

Hello all,

There is an app installed on my PC, ImageMagick.
Link: https://imagemagick.org/#gsc.tab=0
I can uninstall it no problem but i wanted to know how it got on my pc and is it dangerous ?

It appeared a day after my installation of the game "Beyond All Reason" (RTS game like Total Annihilation).
Link: https://www.beyondallreason.info/download
On my previous installation, a few days before my complete reinstallation of Ubuntu, I did not have that.

I do not know how or why it was installed.
I checked the review of that app, and some people have already posted that it was randomly installed when updating.

 

[MikeWalsh]

@Roelzxr :-

Nah, you've nowt to be worried about.

ImageMagick is a long-established, command-line image-processing app. It frequently gets 'pulled-in' as a dependency by seemingly unrelated apps when you install them.....mainly due, I believe, to some of its unique capabilities.

Especially stuff you wouldn't even think could be related!

Blame the developer of whatever it was you installed. Only they will truly know WHY they decided to make use of it...

It IS available in the repos of pretty much ALL major distros, so it's easily accessible by any other application.

(shrug...)


Mike.

 

[ron.alan]

It's on my computer as well. Not sure what needs it in my case. I wouldn't try to remove it. It's not nefarious.

 

[osprey]

Hello all,

There is an app installed on my PC, ImageMagick.
Link: https://imagemagick.org/#gsc.tab=0
I can uninstall it no problem but i wanted to know how it got on my pc and is it dangerous ?

It appeared a day after my installation of the game "Beyond All Reason" (RTS game like Total Annihilation).
Link: https://www.beyondallreason.info/download
On my previous installation, a few days before my complete reinstallation of Ubuntu, I did not have that.

I do not know how or why it was installed.
I checked the review of that app, and some people have already posted that it was randomly installed when updating.

To see what depends on the imagemagick package on the system one can run the following, which I've snipped because it's a rather long list:

[~]$ apt rdepends imagemagick
imagemagick
Reverse Depends:
 |Depends: flydraw (>= 4:5.4.4.5-1)
  Depends: album
    graphicsmagick-imagemagick-compat
    imagemagick-7.q16
  Recommends: play.it
    graphicsmagick-imagemagick-compat
    imagemagick-7.q16
  Suggests: doris
    graphicsmagick-imagemagick-compat
    imagemagick-7.q16
  Depends: diaspora-installer
    graphicsmagick-imagemagick-compat
    imagemagick-7.q16
  Depends: zoph
    graphicsmagick-imagemagick-compat
    imagemagick-7.q16
  Suggests: xpaint
    graphicsmagick-imagemagick-compat
    imagemagick-7.q16
  Suggests: xmakemol-gl
    graphicsmagick-imagemagick-compat
    imagemagick-7.q16
  Suggests: xmakemol
    graphicsmagick-imagemagick-compat
    imagemagick-7.q16
  Depends: xiphos
    graphicsmagick-imagemagick-compat
    imagemagick-7.q16
  Depends: xcrysden
    graphicsmagick-imagemagick-compat
    imagemagick-7.q16
  Suggests: x-face-el
    graphicsmagick-imagemagick-compat
    imagemagick-7.q16
  Suggests: wv
    graphicsmagick-imagemagick-compat
    imagemagick-7.q16
  Recommends: worker
    graphicsmagick-imagemagick-compat
    imagemagick-7.q16
  Suggests: wml
    graphicsmagick-imagemagick-compat
    imagemagick-7.q16
 |Depends: wims (>= 4:5.4.4.5-1)
  Depends: openscad-testing (>= 6.5.9.3)
<snip>

Those dependencies would explain in part why imagemagick is installed.

It's possible to look at each package that does depend on imagemagick and see if it's worth deleting with the end purpose of deleting imagemagick itself, but really, imagemagick is one of those packages deeply integrated with others which really attests to its utility on the system rather than any excessiveness. It's extremely handy for viewing image files of all sorts and making quite some basic graphical manipulations. It's not a fully featured graphic arts package, but rather an economical image viewer with basic processing capabilities like resizing images, cropping them, rotating them, making color adjustments, and applying various visual effects.

 

[deb_user]

ImageMagick is an excellent image viewing and editing program. It doesn't take a huge amount of storage space, and is useful. I wouldn't recommend removing it, because you might need it someday.