[TriLUG] Re: PHP GD in FC3

Owen Berry trilugbucket at berrybunch.net
Mon May 23 12:04:13 EDT 2005


How about 'yum install php-gd' ? I'm running FC3 at work and it seems to
be a separate package.

-- Owen

On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 11:22:33AM -0400, Brian Henning wrote:
> Well, GD is supposed to be distributed with PHP since PHP-4.3...  but I 
> wouldn't necessarily put it past Red Hat / Fedora to alter the 
> inclusions of a particular package..  The only error messages I'm 
> seeing, however, are "undefined function"..  no mention (specifically) 
> of any missing libraries.
> 
> ~B
> 
> Lance A. Brown wrote:
> >Brian Henning wrote:
> >
> >> I just loaded our big bad new server with Fedora Core 3.  Everything
> >>seems to be great, except that PHP doesn't appear to come with the GD
> >>graphics library enabled by default.  I'm not sure what the best course
> >>of action would be for this -- Should I download source and rebuild?  If
> >>I do that, I'm afraid I won't get all the options I'm supposed to have.
> >>Should I look for a different RPM and install from that?
> >
> >
> >Is it that GD isn't in PHP or is it that GD didn't get loaded and PHP isn't
> >activating that module because the underlying libraries are missing?
> >
> >I've missed loading the required library RPMs for a PHP or PERL module and
> >then not had the module when I needed it later because of the RPM 
> >deficiency.
> >
> >--[Lance]
> >



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