On 01/21/2014 09:58 AM, Gilbert E. Detillieux wrote:
On 2014-01-21 09:38, Kevin McGregor wrote:
I'm setting up a Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS server at work for a client who plans to install something called "Stori" (an Oracle-ish thing, stori.orapub.com http://stori.orapub.com). The requirements FAQ on that site is vague, saying "You can install our product on any Linux server." Okay, so what else? "You will need the gd package; do rpm -q gd to ensure it's installed." That's for a Red Hat-derived distro presumably, so what's the equivalent for Debian/Ubuntu? The only package I found was php5-gd, which seems like overkill as it brings in a ton of other stuff. Is gd installed by default in Ubuntu 10.04?
I have no idea if it would be there by default, but you could try running "locate /libgd." on your system to see if the library files are installed. (BTW, on an Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS system here, they were already installed, but then this system has PHP and a bunch of support packages for a web site. The package name for gd on this Ubuntu distro is "libgd2-xpm".)
On RHEL 5 & 6, the "gd" package installs a single library (libgd.so.2.0.0, though the actual package version is 2.0.33 or 2.0.35) and related docs, so I think all you'd need to do is run "ls -l /usr/lib*/libgd.so*" to see if it's there already. If it's not there on the Ubuntu system, then it's a matter of finding and installing the right package. Searching online suggests these commands might do the trick: "sudo apt-cache search libgd" to find it, and something like "sudo apt-get install libgd2" to install it (though the actual package name may differ). There are probably any number of packages you could install that would drag in the library as a dependency, so there are many ways to get it installed, but I imagine you're looking for the minimal set. As Gilbert suggested, libgd2-xpm may well be just that.
See http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/debian-26/how-to-install-gd-image-li... and http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=868016