Imagemagick ENOENT error

Question

Not only I have this issue: Node js + imagemagick + Error: spawn ENOENT

console.log(appPath + '/public/avatar/tmp_' + filename);
var path = appPath + '/public/avatar/tmp_' + filename;
try {
    fs.accessSync(path, fs.F_OK);
    // Do something
    console.log('file exists!');
} catch (e) {
    // It isn't accessible
    console.log('file does NOT exist!');
}

console.log('trying...');
// crop/resize image
im.crop({
    srcPath: path,
    dstPath: 'test1.png',
    width: 60,
    height: 60
}, function(err, stdout, stderr){
    console.log('here');
    if (err) {
        console.log('trololololol '+err);
        reject(err);
    }
    console.log('resized to fit within 60x60px');
    resolve();
});

I get the console output:

C:\www\instantynode\src/public/avatar/tmp_1458064183594_la5v9vcuc27hw7b9.png
file exists!
trying...
events.js:141
      throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event
      ^

Error: spawn identify ENOENT
    at exports._errnoException (util.js:870:11)
    at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:178:32)
    at onErrorNT (internal/child_process.js:344:16)
    at nextTickCallbackWith2Args (node.js:442:9)
    at process._tickCallback (node.js:356:17)

user_10676441 · Answer

I realize this several years late but I just ran into this issue and was able to solve it. I thought I'd post the solution here for the next poor sap who runs into this.

identify is a legacy utility that can optionally be installed with ImageMagick. By default, it is not installed.

user_1243247 · Answer

Just making npm install imagemagick does not suffice because the npm package does not contain any binaries, just node scripts which rely on the binaries.

You still have to install the binaries, in Debian/Ubuntu, you just need to do

sudo apt install imagemagick

Imagemagick ENOENT error

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