Wand throws import error despite installation of magickwand

[vijayan-n]

Hi!

I am trying to run python script which uses wand. I have been using it all this time and it was working perfectly fine. Only since last week am facing the following error:

ImportError: MagickWand shared library not found. You probably had not installed ImageMagick library. Try to install: apt-get install libmagickwand-dev

Both libmagickwand-dev and Wand are installed and upgraded to the latest version. But, the error is still being thrown.

Please help fix this. Thanks in Advance!

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/39867885/wand-throws-import-error-despite-installation-of-magickwand

[lofidevops]

You may have ImageMagick version 7 installed. Wand only supports version 6 - see #287 and #306

[vijayan-n]

Thanks for replying! @kwill
Any idea how to install imagemagick6 in ubuntu?
I am able to find older versions for windows but not for ubuntu. Please guide.

[lofidevops]

@vijayan-n I'm afraid I don't know. I'd suggest asking on https://askubuntu.com

[robinpaulson]

@vijayan-n try looking on launchpad.net, someone may host a ppa with imagemagick6

[mnnit-geek]

Run these:
brew uninstall imagemagick@7 --force

brew install imagemagick@6