GD is not activated or doesnt work

[Zulan]

Hi!

I have a few weeks old ubuntu server installed with LAMP. For some reason Joomla reports GD not to be installed. Also, http://www.zulan.se/phpinfo.php says it's not there. I have installed it using apt-get install php5-gd and it finishes successfully but still, Joomla reports the same problem and can't manipulate the images. I'm fairly new to linux so a detailed answer is much appreciated!

php -m says gd is there

Thanks!

[Francewhoa]

Same issue here with Ubuntu Server 8.04.1 and PHP5. The following worked for me. It will install a GD pre-compiled working version. It is a complete bundled (forked) GD libraries:


If not already done removing your current GD package and its configurations.

sudo apt-get --purge remove


Adding 2 lines to your file /etc/apt/sources.lst

deb http://packages.dotdeb.org stable all
deb-src http://packages.dotdeb.org stable all


Updating your current apt-get list
apt-get update
Installing working GD package.

apt-get install php5-gdIt will complain about non-authenticated sources, just ignore, it will also update some additional php libs.

When prompt select keep_current modified php.ini


Restarting Apache

/etc/init.d/apache2 restartEnjoy

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[fooey]

awesome. after sever different solutions, yours is the only one that worked. thanks!