diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/ImageMagick/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/ImageMagick/package.py
index b0ccba100992bd5cedde4f14267de5e0573b2877..966e375d48c97d942049f670d96da46e4d2008f0 100644
--- a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/ImageMagick/package.py
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/ImageMagick/package.py
@@ -26,29 +26,13 @@
 
 
 class Imagemagick(Package):
-    """ImageMagick is a image processing library"""
-    homepage = "http://www.imagemagic.org"
+    """ImageMagick is a software suite to create, edit, compose,
+    or convert bitmap images."""
 
-    # -------------------------------------------------------------------------
-    # ImageMagick does not keep around anything but *-10 versions, so
-    # this URL may change.  If you want the bleeding edge, you can
-    # uncomment it and see if it works but you may need to try to
-    # fetch a newer version (-6, -7, -8, -9, etc.) or you can stick
-    # wtih the older, stable, archived -10 versions below.
-    #
-    # TODO: would be nice if spack had a way to recommend avoiding a
-    # TODO: bleeding edge version, but not comment it out.
-    # -------------------------------------------------------------------------
-    # version('6.9.0-6', 'c1bce7396c22995b8bdb56b7797b4a1b',
-    # url="http://www.imagemagick.org/download/ImageMagick-6.9.0-6.tar.bz2")
+    homepage = "http://www.imagemagick.org"
+    url      = "http://www.imagemagick.org/download/ImageMagick-7.0.2-6.tar.gz"
 
-    # -------------------------------------------------------------------------
-    # *-10 versions are archived, so these versions should fetch reliably.
-    # -------------------------------------------------------------------------
-    version(
-        '6.8.9-10',
-        'aa050bf9785e571c956c111377bbf57c',
-        url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/imagemagick/files/old-sources/6.x/6.8/ImageMagick-6.8.9-10.tar.gz/download")
+    version('7.0.2-6', 'c29c98d2496fbc66adb05a28d8fad21a')
 
     depends_on('jpeg')
     depends_on('libtool', type='build')
@@ -56,8 +40,11 @@ class Imagemagick(Package):
     depends_on('freetype')
     depends_on('fontconfig')
     depends_on('libtiff')
+    depends_on('ghostscript')
 
     def install(self, spec, prefix):
-        configure("--prefix=%s" % prefix)
+        configure('--prefix={0}'.format(prefix))
+
         make()
-        make("install")
+        make('check')
+        make('install')
diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/ghostscript/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/ghostscript/package.py
index c22b90088e32f64483bbe05ec199d0c6d3ac7dd6..f63ebac0c148b2b11156ee7c3f98ad313d8c4045 100644
--- a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/ghostscript/package.py
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/ghostscript/package.py
@@ -26,16 +26,20 @@
 
 
 class Ghostscript(Package):
-    """an interpreter for the PostScript language and for PDF. """
+    """An interpreter for the PostScript language and for PDF."""
+
     homepage = "http://ghostscript.com/"
-    url      = "http://downloads.ghostscript.com/public/old-gs-releases/ghostscript-9.18.tar.gz"
+    url = "http://downloads.ghostscript.com/public/old-gs-releases/ghostscript-9.18.tar.gz"
 
     version('9.18', '33a47567d7a591c00a253caddd12a88a')
 
     parallel = False
 
+    depends_on('libtiff')
+
     def install(self, spec, prefix):
-        configure("--prefix=%s" % prefix, "--enable-shared")
+        configure('--prefix={0}'.format(prefix),
+                  '--with-system-libtiff')
 
         make()
-        make("install")
+        make('install')