[RndTbl] GD package?

Kevin McGregor kevin.a.mcgregor at gmail.com
Tue Jan 21 11:54:10 CST 2014


$ ls -l /usr/lib*/libgd*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    23 2014-01-20 11:04
/usr/lib64/libgdbm_compat.so.3 -> libgdbm_compat.so.3.0.0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10120 2009-12-05 16:15
/usr/lib64/libgdbm_compat.so.3.0.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    16 2014-01-20 11:04 /usr/lib64/libgdbm.so.3 ->
libgdbm.so.3.0.0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 22768 2009-12-05 16:15 /usr/lib64/libgdbm.so.3.0.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    23 2014-01-20 11:04 /usr/lib/libgdbm_compat.so.3
-> libgdbm_compat.so.3.0.0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10120 2009-12-05 16:15
/usr/lib/libgdbm_compat.so.3.0.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    16 2014-01-20 11:04 /usr/lib/libgdbm.so.3 ->
libgdbm.so.3.0.0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 22768 2009-12-05 16:15 /usr/lib/libgdbm.so.3.0.0


Aw.

$ sudo apt-get install php5-gd
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  apache2-mpm-prefork apache2-utils apache2.2-bin apache2.2-common
fontconfig-config libapache2-mod-php5 libapr1
  libaprutil1 libaprutil1-dbd-sqlite3 libaprutil1-ldap libfontconfig1
libgd2-xpm libjpeg62 libt1-5 libxpm4
  php5-common ssl-cert ttf-dejavu-core
Suggested packages:
  apache2-doc apache2-suexec apache2-suexec-custom php-pear libgd-tools
php5-suhosin
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  apache2-mpm-prefork apache2-utils apache2.2-bin apache2.2-common
fontconfig-config libapache2-mod-php5 libapr1
  libaprutil1 libaprutil1-dbd-sqlite3 libaprutil1-ldap libfontconfig1
libgd2-xpm libjpeg62 libt1-5 libxpm4
  php5-common php5-gd ssl-cert ttf-dejavu-core
0 upgraded, 19 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 9,535kB of archives.
After this operation, 26.0MB of additional disk space will be used.

Oh, there it is. I tried that before, but I must have missed seeing the
libgd2-xpm.

I ended up going with this:

$ sudo apt-get install libgd2-noxpm
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  libjpeg62
Suggested packages:
  libgd-tools
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libgd2-noxpm libjpeg62
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 308kB of archives.
After this operation, 885kB of additional disk space will be used.


Thanks, all!


On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 11:01 AM, Gilles Detillieux <
grdetil at scrc.umanitoba.ca> wrote:

> 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-library-on-debian-155068/ and http://www.perlmonks.org/?
> node_id=868016
>
> --
> Gilles R. Detillieux              E-mail: <grdetil at scrc.umanitoba.ca>
> Spinal Cord Research Centre       WWW:    http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/
> Dept. Physiology, U. of Manitoba  Winnipeg, MB  R3E 0J9  (Canada)
>
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