PHP does not use imagick, but a (forked) libgd2 by default (some distros patch php to use the distro libgd). Imagick is only available if you install a C PHP ex

PHP does not use imagick, but a (forked) libgd2 by default (some distros patch php to use the distro libgd). Imagick is only available if you install a C PHP extension providing an imagick interface.