From 992571 at gmx.de  Mon Nov 28 14:45:04 2005
From: 992571 at gmx.de (Benni Graf)
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 15:45:04 +0100
Subject: [tinysofa-discuss] Problems getting the gdlib work
Message-ID: <438B17F0.7060709@gmx.de>

Hello there!

I'm a tinysofa-user since two months or so and I'm pretty happy with 
it. I use it for my homeserver (I do some webdeveloping on it) here in 
south germany ;-).

However, I've got problems with the gdlib for php5.

I've installed the packets "gd" and "gd-devel" via apt-shell. That was 
the first confusing moment - the libgd.so isn't included in the 
php.ini-file automatically, I had to add the line "extension=libgd.so" 
manually. (I thought there would be a file added in the 
/etc/php.d/-dir, in which the library is being loaded...)

I also needed to copy the libgd.so-file from /usr/lib to 
/usr/lib/php5, because this is the include-dir given in the 
php.ini-configuration-file.

However, as I did this and restarted the Apache-Webserver, the gdlib 
still wasn't there... you can see the current status at 
http://benni.homelinux.net/info.php (which just shows the 
phpinfo()-command...).

Any Ideas/Suggestions, what I did wrong or what I eventually forgot?

Nice greetings,

Benni Graf.


From mbak at fxnet.hu  Mon Nov 28 15:02:34 2005
From: mbak at fxnet.hu (Mikael Bak)
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 16:02:34 +0100
Subject: [tinysofa-discuss] Problems getting the gdlib work
In-Reply-To: <438B17F0.7060709@gmx.de>
References: <438B17F0.7060709@gmx.de>
Message-ID: <1133190153.3411.70.camel@localhost.localdomain>

On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 15:45, Benni Graf wrote:
[snip]
> However, I've got problems with the gdlib for php5.
> 
> I've installed the packets "gd" and "gd-devel" via apt-shell. That was 
> the first confusing moment - the libgd.so isn't included in the 
> php.ini-file automatically, I had to add the line "extension=libgd.so" 
> manually. (I thought there would be a file added in the 
> /etc/php.d/-dir, in which the library is being loaded...)
> 
> I also needed to copy the libgd.so-file from /usr/lib to 
> /usr/lib/php5, because this is the include-dir given in the 
> php.ini-configuration-file.
> 

Just to be sure... you did install the "php5-gd"-package, did you?
As far as I know this is the one who is responsible putting the
extension into the /etc/php.d/-dir and the library files in the right
places. That would be logical to me anyway. I doubt there is any need
moving library files around. That just doesn't make sence.

So, if you haven't alredy installed php5-gd, then first restore all
library files to the original state and let php5-gd do the job for you.

I dont think you need gd-devel for normal php development.

HTH,
Mikael




From rob at ellis-solicitors-chester.co.uk  Mon Nov 28 15:50:58 2005
From: rob at ellis-solicitors-chester.co.uk (Rob Pomeroy)
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 15:50:58 +0000
Subject: [tinysofa-discuss] Problems getting the gdlib work
In-Reply-To: <1133190153.3411.70.camel@localhost.localdomain>
References: <438B17F0.7060709@gmx.de>
	<1133190153.3411.70.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Message-ID: <438B2762.5050707@ellis-solicitors-chester.co.uk>

Mikael Bak wrote:

>Just to be sure... you did install the "php5-gd"-package, did you?
>  
>
Spot on - that is exactly what causes this problem.  Benni, when I was 
installing php, I did:

  apt-cache search php

This shows all of the php packages that you can install - you'll almost 
certainly want more than just the php5-gd pacakge.  The php5-mysql 
package will come in very handy too, etc., etc.

Installation of the packages does of course require restarting Apache, 
but you know this already I think.

>I dont think you need gd-devel for normal php development.
>  
>
In fact I'm not sure gd-devel would install anything that PHP could 
access anyway.

All the best,

Rob

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