Wrong command line invocation for ImageMagick after installing with MacPorts?

[GittyGharial]

I installed ImageMagick ImageMagick @6.9.11-60_12+x11 with the command here: ​https://ports.macports.org/port/ImageMagick/

I wanted to convert some images. However, when I tried to invoke the conversion command per ImageMagick's official documentation here (​https://imagemagick.org/script/convert.php) with magick rose.jpg rose.png, I got the error, "-bash: magick: command not found".

I tried `convert rose.jpg rose.png' and it worked fine.

I'm glad I could use the tool, but the fact that it doesn't match the documentation is concerning.

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

The documentation you are following seems to assume ImageMagick version 7, while the ImageMagick port is version 6. There is a separate ImageMagick7 port. I assume the maintainers have their reasons for making the unqualified port name an older version.

[Dave-Allured (Dave Allured)]

That is correct, port ImageMagick is the legacy version 6. Legacy documentation is here: ​https://legacy.imagemagick.org

For the current version, please install port ImageMagick7.

Someone please close this ticket as resolved. Thanks.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Replying to jmroot:

I assume the maintainers have their reasons for making the unqualified port name an older version.

There are a bazillion ports depending on ImageMagick. I imagined that a fair number of them would be broken by updating to version 7 which I was not prepared to invest time in fixing so I did not pursue updating to that version. Dave independently created the ImageMagick7 port.