Add imagemagick libraries on ubuntu-24.04

[shivammathur]

Tool name

libmagickcore-dev

Tool license

ImageMagick License

Add or update?

• Add
• Update

Desired version

6.9

Approximate size

No response

Brief description of tool

ImageMagick is a free, open-source software suite, used for editing and manipulating digital images.

URL for tool's homepage

https://imagemagick.org

Provide a basic test case to validate the tool's functionality.

Platforms where you need the tool

• Azure DevOps
• GitHub Actions

Runner images where you need the tool

• Ubuntu 20.04
• Ubuntu 22.04
• Ubuntu 24.04
• macOS 12
• macOS 13
• macOS 13 Arm64
• macOS 14
• macOS 14 Arm64
• macOS 15
• macOS 15 Arm64
• Windows Server 2019
• Windows Server 2022
• Windows Server 2025

Can this tool be installed during the build?

sudo apt install imagemagick

Tool installation time in runtime

No response

Are you willing to submit a PR?

Yes

[shivammathur]

Please reconsider adding imagemagick to the common packages installed on Ubuntu 24.04.

I'm the author of the setup-php action and for us to support ubuntu-24.04 runner, which is also ubuntu-latest now, it would help if imagemagick is pre-installed.

With imagemagick libraries the size for our PHP builds for ubuntu-24.04 has increased to over 50 MB. It was around 20 MB for the previous ubuntu versions.

[lakshminarayana02]

Dear @shivammathur

For the Ubuntu 24.04, GitHub opted to keep a lightweight image.

pre-installing ImageMagick may be a good idea, doing so would raise the base image size for everyone, regardless of whether they actually need it or not. This would negatively impact the runner's overall performance.

anyways, let us validate and keep updated here