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Quote:

Originally Posted by angel115 (Post 4040536)

Hi Spuddy,

I would sugest that you check that you've created the nagios user and group
as following the output of your command ls -la /usr/local/nagios/var/
nagios should run under nagios user and nagios group.

if you did edit your nagios.cfg

Code:

vi /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg

and change the nagios_user and nagios_group to nagios

Code:

nagios_user=nagios

nagios_group=nagios

save it and try to restart nagios again.

Hello, both are set to nagios already.

Thanks.

Okay, do you see where your nagios.lock file is owned by root? It shouldn't be, so it looks like its not being created properly.

Unless you toyed with the owner of the file.

Try deleting the lock file

Code:

rm -f /usr/local/nagios/var/nagios.lock

and restarting nagios. Look at the logs and see if it is still complaining about the lock file permissions.

The go and run

Code:

ls -la /usr/local/nagios/var/

See what permissions and owner the lock file is being created with.

Quote:

Originally Posted by rfelsburg (Post 4040642)

Code:

rm -f /usr/local/nagios/var/nagios.lock

and restarting nagios. Look at the logs and see if it is still complaining about the lock file permissions.

The go and run

Code:

ls -la /usr/local/nagios/var/

See what permissions and owner the lock file is being created with.

Hi,

deleted nagios.lock file as requested.

Then

Code:

ODB2:/usr/local/nagios/etc# /etc/init.d/nagios restart

Running configuration check...done.

Stopping nagios: kill: usage: kill [-s sigspec | -n signum | -sigspec] pid | jobspec ... or kill -l [sigspec]

done.

Starting nagios:Unknown id: nagiosadmin

chown: invalid user: `nagiosadmin:nagios'

 done.

ODB2:/usr/local/nagios/etc# ls -la /usr/local/nagios/var/

total 40

drwxrwsr-x  5 nagios nagios  4096 2010-07-21 13:33 .

drwxr-sr-x 12 nagios nagios  4096 2010-07-20 14:09 ..

drwxrwsr-x  2 nagios nagios  4096 2010-07-20 12:57 archives

-rw-r--r--  1 root  nagios    0 2010-07-21 13:33 nagios.lock

-rw-r--r--  1 nagios nagios  2952 2010-07-21 13:33 nagios.log

-rw-r--r--  1 nagios nagios 12943 2010-07-21 13:33 objects.cache

drwxrwsr-x  2 nagios nagios  4096 2010-07-20 12:57 rw

drwxr-sr-x  3 root  nagios  4096 2010-07-20 12:57 spool

ODB2:/usr/local/nagios/etc#

Hi Spuddy,

Can you please paste your nagios service script ?

cat /etc/init.d/nagios

also give O/P of below command

id nagios

Quote:

Originally Posted by sem007 (Post 4040651)

Hi Spuddy,

Can you please paste your nagios service script ?

cat /etc/init.d/nagios

Code:

ODB2:/usr/local/nagios/etc# cat /etc/init.d/nagios

#!/bin/sh

#

# chkconfig: 345 99 01

# description: Nagios network monitor

#

# File : nagios

#

# Author : Jorge Sanchez Aymar (jsanchez@lanchile.cl)

#

# Changelog :

#

# 1999-07-09 Karl DeBisschop <kdebisschop@infoplease.com>

#  - setup for autoconf

#  - add reload function

# 1999-08-06 Ethan Galstad <egalstad@nagios.org>

#  - Added configuration info for use with RedHat's chkconfig tool

#    per Fran Boon's suggestion

# 1999-08-13 Jim Popovitch <jimpop@rocketship.com>

#  - added variable for nagios/var directory

#  - cd into nagios/var directory before creating tmp files on startup

# 1999-08-16 Ethan Galstad <egalstad@nagios.org>

#  - Added test for rc.d directory as suggested by Karl DeBisschop

# 2000-07-23 Karl DeBisschop <kdebisschop@users.sourceforge.net>

#  - Clean out redhat macros and other dependencies

# 2003-01-11 Ethan Galstad <egalstad@nagios.org>

#  - Updated su syntax (Gary Miller)

#

# Description: Starts and stops the Nagios monitor

#              used to provide network services status.

#



status_nagios ()

{



        if test -x $NagiosCGI/daemonchk.cgi; then

                if $NagiosCGI/daemonchk.cgi -l $NagiosRunFile; then

                        return 0

                else

                        return 1

                fi

        else

                if ps -p $NagiosPID > /dev/null 2>&1; then

                        return 0

                else

                        return 1

                fi

        fi



        return 1

}





printstatus_nagios()

{



        if status_nagios $1 $2; then

                echo "nagios (pid $NagiosPID) is running..."

        else

                echo "nagios is not running"

        fi

}





killproc_nagios ()

{



        kill $2 $NagiosPID



}





pid_nagios ()

{



        if test ! -f $NagiosRunFile; then

                echo "No lock file found in $NagiosRunFile"

                exit 1

        fi



        NagiosPID=`head -n 1 $NagiosRunFile`

}





# Source function library

# Solaris doesn't have an rc.d directory, so do a test first

if [ -f /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions ]; then

        . /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions

elif [ -f /etc/init.d/functions ]; then

        . /etc/init.d/functions

fi



prefix=/usr/local/nagios

exec_prefix=${prefix}

NagiosBin=${exec_prefix}/bin/nagios

NagiosCfgFile=${prefix}/etc/nagios.cfg

NagiosStatusFile=${prefix}/var/status.dat

NagiosRetentionFile=${prefix}/var/retention.dat

NagiosCommandFile=${prefix}/var/rw/nagios.cmd

NagiosVarDir=${prefix}/var

NagiosRunFile=${prefix}/var/nagios.lock

NagiosLockDir=/var/lock/subsys

NagiosLockFile=nagios

NagiosCGIDir=${exec_prefix}/sbin

NagiosUser=nagiosadmin

NagiosGroup=nagios





# Check that nagios exists.

if [ ! -f $NagiosBin ]; then

    echo "Executable file $NagiosBin not found.  Exiting."

    exit 1

fi



# Check that nagios.cfg exists.

if [ ! -f $NagiosCfgFile ]; then

    echo "Configuration file $NagiosCfgFile not found.  Exiting."

    exit 1

fi



# See how we were called.

case "$1" in



        start)

                echo -n "Starting nagios:"

                $NagiosBin -v $NagiosCfgFile > /dev/null 2>&1;

                if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then

                        su - $NagiosUser -c "touch $NagiosVarDir/nagios.log $NagiosRetentionFile"

                        rm -f $NagiosCommandFile

                        touch $NagiosRunFile

                        chown $NagiosUser:$NagiosGroup $NagiosRunFile

                        $NagiosBin -d $NagiosCfgFile

                        if [ -d $NagiosLockDir ]; then touch $NagiosLockDir/$NagiosLockFile; fi

                        echo " done."

                        exit 0

                else

                        echo "CONFIG ERROR!  Start aborted.  Check your Nagios configuration."

                        exit 1

                fi

                ;;



        stop)

                echo -n "Stopping nagios: "



                pid_nagios

                killproc_nagios nagios



                # now we have to wait for nagios to exit and remove its

                # own NagiosRunFile, otherwise a following "start" could

                # happen, and then the exiting nagios will remove the

                # new NagiosRunFile, allowing multiple nagios daemons

                # to (sooner or later) run - John Sellens

                #echo -n 'Waiting for nagios to exit .'

                for i in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ; do

                    if status_nagios > /dev/null; then

                        echo -n '.'

                        sleep 1

                    else

                        break

                    fi

                done

                if status_nagios > /dev/null; then

                    echo ''

                    echo 'Warning - nagios did not exit in a timely manner'

                else

                    echo 'done.'

                fi



                rm -f $NagiosStatusFile $NagiosRunFile $NagiosLockDir/$NagiosLockFile $NagiosCommandFile

                ;;



        status)

                pid_nagios

                printstatus_nagios nagios

                ;;



        checkconfig)

                printf "Running configuration check..."

                $NagiosBin -v $NagiosCfgFile > /dev/null 2>&1;

                if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then

                        echo " OK."

                else

                        echo " CONFIG ERROR!  Check your Nagios configuration."

                        exit 1

                fi

                ;;



        restart)

                printf "Running configuration check..."

                $NagiosBin -v $NagiosCfgFile > /dev/null 2>&1;

                if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then

                        echo "done."

                        $0 stop

                        $0 start

                else

                        echo " CONFIG ERROR!  Restart aborted.  Check your Nagios configuration."

                        exit 1

                fi

                ;;



        reload|force-reload)

                printf "Running configuration check..."

                $NagiosBin -v $NagiosCfgFile > /dev/null 2>&1;

                if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then

                        echo "done."

                        if test ! -f $NagiosRunFile; then

                                $0 start

                        else

                                pid_nagios

                                if status_nagios > /dev/null; then

                                        printf "Reloading nagios configuration..."

                                        killproc_nagios nagios -HUP

                                        echo "done"

                                else

                                        $0 stop

                                        $0 start

                                fi

                        fi

                else

                        echo " CONFIG ERROR!  Reload aborted.  Check your Nagios configuration."

                        exit 1

                fi

                ;;



        *)

                echo "Usage: nagios {start|stop|restart|reload|force-reload|status|checkconfig}"

                exit 1

                ;;



esac



# End of this script

Thanks

You're users are set in the script you just pasted:

Code:

NagiosUser=nagiosadmin

NagiosGroup=nagios

Change nagiosadmin to nagios.

The reason you saw the kill error above was because we had deleted the lock file.

Fix the nagios user, then restart nagios, see if the lock file has the correct permissions and owner.

After that post your /var/log/messages log for the restart, and see if there are any errors.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Spuddy (Post 4040652)

Code:

ODB2:/usr/local/nagios/etc# cat /etc/init.d/nagios

#!/bin/sh

#

# chkconfig: 345 99 01

# description: Nagios network monitor

#

# File : nagios

#

# Author : Jorge Sanchez Aymar (jsanchez@lanchile.cl)

#

# Changelog :

#

# 1999-07-09 Karl DeBisschop <kdebisschop@infoplease.com>

#  - setup for autoconf

#  - add reload function

# 1999-08-06 Ethan Galstad <egalstad@nagios.org>

#  - Added configuration info for use with RedHat's chkconfig tool

#    per Fran Boon's suggestion

# 1999-08-13 Jim Popovitch <jimpop@rocketship.com>

#  - added variable for nagios/var directory

#  - cd into nagios/var directory before creating tmp files on startup

# 1999-08-16 Ethan Galstad <egalstad@nagios.org>

#  - Added test for rc.d directory as suggested by Karl DeBisschop

# 2000-07-23 Karl DeBisschop <kdebisschop@users.sourceforge.net>

#  - Clean out redhat macros and other dependencies

# 2003-01-11 Ethan Galstad <egalstad@nagios.org>

#  - Updated su syntax (Gary Miller)

#

# Description: Starts and stops the Nagios monitor

#              used to provide network services status.

#



status_nagios ()

{



        if test -x $NagiosCGI/daemonchk.cgi; then

                if $NagiosCGI/daemonchk.cgi -l $NagiosRunFile; then

                        return 0

                else

                        return 1

                fi

        else

                if ps -p $NagiosPID > /dev/null 2>&1; then

                        return 0

                else

                        return 1

                fi

        fi



        return 1

}





printstatus_nagios()

{



        if status_nagios $1 $2; then

                echo "nagios (pid $NagiosPID) is running..."

        else

                echo "nagios is not running"

        fi

}





killproc_nagios ()

{



        kill $2 $NagiosPID



}





pid_nagios ()

{



        if test ! -f $NagiosRunFile; then

                echo "No lock file found in $NagiosRunFile"

                exit 1

        fi



        NagiosPID=`head -n 1 $NagiosRunFile`

}





# Source function library

# Solaris doesn't have an rc.d directory, so do a test first

if [ -f /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions ]; then

        . /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions

elif [ -f /etc/init.d/functions ]; then

        . /etc/init.d/functions

fi



prefix=/usr/local/nagios

exec_prefix=${prefix}

NagiosBin=${exec_prefix}/bin/nagios

NagiosCfgFile=${prefix}/etc/nagios.cfg

NagiosStatusFile=${prefix}/var/status.dat

NagiosRetentionFile=${prefix}/var/retention.dat

NagiosCommandFile=${prefix}/var/rw/nagios.cmd

NagiosVarDir=${prefix}/var

NagiosRunFile=${prefix}/var/nagios.lock

NagiosLockDir=/var/lock/subsys

NagiosLockFile=nagios

NagiosCGIDir=${exec_prefix}/sbin

NagiosUser=nagiosadmin

NagiosGroup=nagios





# Check that nagios exists.

if [ ! -f $NagiosBin ]; then

    echo "Executable file $NagiosBin not found.  Exiting."

    exit 1

fi



# Check that nagios.cfg exists.

if [ ! -f $NagiosCfgFile ]; then

    echo "Configuration file $NagiosCfgFile not found.  Exiting."

    exit 1

fi



# See how we were called.

case "$1" in



        start)

                echo -n "Starting nagios:"

                $NagiosBin -v $NagiosCfgFile > /dev/null 2>&1;

                if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then

                        su - $NagiosUser -c "touch $NagiosVarDir/nagios.log $NagiosRetentionFile"

                        rm -f $NagiosCommandFile

                        touch $NagiosRunFile

                        chown $NagiosUser:$NagiosGroup $NagiosRunFile

                        $NagiosBin -d $NagiosCfgFile

                        if [ -d $NagiosLockDir ]; then touch $NagiosLockDir/$NagiosLockFile; fi

                        echo " done."

                        exit 0

                else

                        echo "CONFIG ERROR!  Start aborted.  Check your Nagios configuration."

                        exit 1

                fi

                ;;



        stop)

                echo -n "Stopping nagios: "



                pid_nagios

                killproc_nagios nagios



                # now we have to wait for nagios to exit and remove its

                # own NagiosRunFile, otherwise a following "start" could

                # happen, and then the exiting nagios will remove the

                # new NagiosRunFile, allowing multiple nagios daemons

                # to (sooner or later) run - John Sellens

                #echo -n 'Waiting for nagios to exit .'

                for i in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ; do

                    if status_nagios > /dev/null; then

                        echo -n '.'

                        sleep 1

                    else

                        break

                    fi

                done

                if status_nagios > /dev/null; then

                    echo ''

                    echo 'Warning - nagios did not exit in a timely manner'

                else

                    echo 'done.'

                fi



                rm -f $NagiosStatusFile $NagiosRunFile $NagiosLockDir/$NagiosLockFile $NagiosCommandFile

                ;;



        status)

                pid_nagios

                printstatus_nagios nagios

                ;;



        checkconfig)

                printf "Running configuration check..."

                $NagiosBin -v $NagiosCfgFile > /dev/null 2>&1;

                if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then

                        echo " OK."

                else

                        echo " CONFIG ERROR!  Check your Nagios configuration."

                        exit 1

                fi

                ;;



        restart)

                printf "Running configuration check..."

                $NagiosBin -v $NagiosCfgFile > /dev/null 2>&1;

                if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then

                        echo "done."

                        $0 stop

                        $0 start

                else

                        echo " CONFIG ERROR!  Restart aborted.  Check your Nagios configuration."

                        exit 1

                fi

                ;;



        reload|force-reload)

                printf "Running configuration check..."

                $NagiosBin -v $NagiosCfgFile > /dev/null 2>&1;

                if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then

                        echo "done."

                        if test ! -f $NagiosRunFile; then

                                $0 start

                        else

                                pid_nagios

                                if status_nagios > /dev/null; then

                                        printf "Reloading nagios configuration..."

                                        killproc_nagios nagios -HUP

                                        echo "done"

                                else

                                        $0 stop

                                        $0 start

                                fi

                        fi

                else

                        echo " CONFIG ERROR!  Reload aborted.  Check your Nagios configuration."

                        exit 1

                fi

                ;;



        *)

                echo "Usage: nagios {start|stop|restart|reload|force-reload|status|checkconfig}"

                exit 1

                ;;



esac



# End of this script

Thanks

find the variable of NagiosUser in your configuration file change this value
value as per your file is nagiosadmin change it to nagios

Code:

NagiosUser=nagios

now try to start or restart nagios service
let us know if you get any error

That was it!

Code:

ODB2:/usr/local/nagios/etc# /etc/init.d/nagios restart

Running configuration check...done.

Stopping nagios: kill: usage: kill [-s sigspec | -n signum | -sigspec] pid | jobspec ... or kill -l [sigspec]

done.

Starting nagios: done.

ODB2:/usr/local/nagios/etc#

And the pages now load. One final thing. It seems there is a slight issue with the current status->map and alerts->histrogram

Code:

The requested URL /nagios/cgi-bin/statusmap.cgi was not found on this server.

Code:

The requested URL /nagios/cgi-bin/histogram.cgi was not found on this server.

Should they be there on a new install or are they something that is populated later on?

Thanks for all your help guys, this is certainly the most helpful forum I have ever used! I have only been into Linux for a month or so and have been learning extensively.

Check your nagios path for the files and see if they are there. You'd need to see where apache is sending your request.

I'm assuming you have a alias and scriptalias directive setup?

See where the /cgibin/ is taking you then look for the file in the path.

you should also be able to look at your apache logs to see the path its looking at for those files.

Quote:

Originally Posted by rfelsburg (Post 4040708)

Thanks, I found this in the logs.

Code:

[Wed Jul 21 14:20:48 2010] [error] [client 192.168.0.239] script not found or unable to stat: /usr/local/nagios/sbin/histogram.cgi, referer: http://192.168.$

[Wed Jul 21 14:20:49 2010] [error] [client 192.168.0.239] script not found or unable to stat: /usr/local/nagios/sbin/histogram.cgi, referer: http://192.168.$

Directory

Code:

ODB2:/# cd /usr/local/nagios/sbin

ODB2:/usr/local/nagios/sbin# ls

avail.cgi  config.cgi  history.cgi        outages.cgi  status.cgi    statuswrl.cgi  tac.cgi

cmd.cgi    extinfo.cgi  notifications.cgi  showlog.cgi  statuswml.cgi  summary.cgi

ODB2:/usr/local/nagios/sbin#

From the nagios support site:

Description:

Trying to access the statusmap, trends, or histogram CGIs from the web interface either results in a 404 error (missing document) or produces errors.

Solution:

The most probable cause of this is that you do not have the gd library and/or its required libraries (i.e. libpng, libjpeg, and zlib). If you do have the libraries installed on your system, the configure script may not have properly detected them before you compiled the CGIs. Here's what you can do to solve the issue:

Install the gd, png, jpeg, and zlib libraries on your system. You will also have to install the gd-devel, png-devel, jpeg-devel, and zlib-devel libraries. If you want RPMs for these libraries, try searching rpmfind.net for the following libraries:

@Spuddy

I think you have not installed gd library.
just install gd library to access those .cgi files.

Thanks guys, I have looked at that article and also searched aptitude, but what version(s) do I need?

Code:

ODB2:/usr/local/nagios/sbin# aptitude search libgd

p  libgd-barcode-perl                                                    - Library to create barcode images (GD::Barcode)

v  libgd-dev                                                              -

p  libgd-gd2-noxpm-perl                                                  - Perl module wrapper for libgd - gd2 variant without XPM support

p  libgd-gd2-perl                                                        - Perl module wrapper for libgd - gd2 variant

p  libgd-graph-perl                                                      - Graph Plotting Module for Perl 5

p  libgd-graph3d-perl                                                    - Create 3D Graphs with GD and GD::Graph

p  libgd-ruby                                                            - Extension library to use GD graphics library from Ruby

p  libgd-ruby1.8                                                          - Extension library to use GD graphics library from Ruby

p  libgd-securityimage-perl                                              - Security image (captcha) generator

p  libgd-svg-perl                                                        - Seamlessly enable SVG output from scripts written using GD

p  libgd-text-perl                                                        - Text utilities for use with GD

i  libgd-tools                                                            - GD command line tools and example code

v  libgd2                                                                -

c  libgd2-noxpm                                                          - GD Graphics Library version 2 (without XPM support)

p  libgd2-noxpm-dev                                                      - GD Graphics Library version 2 (development version)

i  libgd2-xpm                                                            - GD Graphics Library version 2

i  libgd2-xpm-dev                                                        - GD Graphics Library version 2 (development version)

p  libgda-4.0-4                                                          - data abstraction library based on GLib

p  libgda-4.0-4-dbg                                                      - data abstraction library based on GLib -- debug files

p  libgda-4.0-bin                                                        - data abstraction library based on GLib -- binary files

p  libgda-4.0-common                                                      - data abstraction library based on GLib -- common files

p  libgda-4.0-dev                                                        - data abstraction library based on GLib -- development files

p  libgda-4.0-doc                                                        - data abstraction library based on GLib -- documentation files

p  libgda-4.0-mysql                                                      - MySQL provider for libgda database abstraction library

p  libgda-4.0-postgres                                                    - PostgreSQL provider for libgda database abstraction library

p  libgda-ruby                                                            - GNOME Data Access bindings for the Ruby Language

p  libgda-ruby1.8                                                        - GNOME Data Access bindings for the Ruby Language

p  libgda2-3                                                              - GNOME Data Access library for GNOME2

p  libgda2-3-dbg                                                          - GDA2 library and debugging symbols

p  libgda2-bin                                                            - Binary files for GNOME Data Access library for GNOME2

p  libgda2-common                                                        - Common files for GNOME Data Access library for GNOME2

p  libgda2-dev                                                            - Development files for GNOME Data Access library for GNOME2

p  libgda2-doc                                                            - Documentation files for GNOME Data Access library for GNOME2

p  libgda3-3                                                              - GNOME Data Access library for GNOME2

p  libgda3-3-dbg                                                          - GDA3 library and debugging symbols

p  libgda3-bin                                                            - Binary files for GNOME Data Access library for GNOME2

p  libgda3-common                                                        - Common files for GNOME Data Access library for GNOME2

p  libgda3-dev                                                            - Development files for GNOME Data Access library for GNOME2

p  libgda3-doc                                                            - Documentation files for GNOME Data Access library for GNOME2

p  libgda3-mysql                                                          - MySQL backend plugin for GNOME Data Access library for GNOME2

p  libgda3-odbc                                                          - ODBC backend plugin for GNOME Data Access library for GNOME2

p  libgda3-postgres                                                      - PostgreSQL backend plugin for GNOME Data Access library for GNOME2

p  libgda3-sqlite                                                        - SQLite backend plugin for GNOME Data Access library for GNOME2

v  libgdal-dev                                                            -

p  libgdal-doc                                                            - Documentation for the Geospatial Data Abstraction Library

p  libgdal-perl                                                          - Perl bindings to the Geospatial Data Abstraction Library

p  libgdal-ruby                                                          - Ruby bindings to the Geospatial Data Abstraction Library

p  libgdal-ruby1.8                                                        - Ruby 1.8 bindings to the Geospatial Data Abstraction Library

p  libgdal1-1.5.0                                                        - Geospatial Data Abstraction Library

p  libgdal1-1.5.0-grass                                                  - GRASS extension for the Geospatial Data Abstraction Library

p  libgdal1-1.6.0                                                        - Geospatial Data Abstraction Library

p  libgdal1-1.6.0-grass                                                  - GRASS extension for the GDAL library

p  libgdal1-dev                                                          - Geospatial Data Abstraction Library - Development files

p  libgdamm1.3-8                                                          - C++ wrappers for libgda2 (shared library)

p  libgdamm1.3-dev                                                        - C++ wrappers for libgda2 (development files)

p  libgdamm3.0-10                                                        - C++ wrappers for libgda3

p  libgdamm3.0-dev                                                        - C++ wrappers for libgda3 (library headers)

p  libgdamm3.0-doc                                                        - C++ wrappers for libgda3 (documentation)

p  libgdata-cil-dev                                                      - Google GData CLI client library

p  libgdata-common                                                        - Library for accessing GData webservices - common data files

p  libgdata-dev                                                          - Library for accessing GData webservices - development files

p  libgdata-doc                                                          - Library for accessing GData webservices - documentation

p  libgdata-google1.2-1                                                  - Client library for accessing Google POA through SOAP interface

p  libgdata-google1.2-dev                                                - Client library for accessing Google POA (development files)

p  libgdata-java                                                          - simple standard protocol for reading and writing data on the web

p  libgdata1.2-1                                                          - Client library for accessing Google POA through SOAP interface

p  libgdata1.2-dev                                                        - Client library for accessing Google POA (development files)

p  libgdata1.4-cil                                                        - Google GData CLI client library

p  libgdata7                                                              - Library for accessing GData webservices - shared libraries

p  libgdb-dev                                                            - The GNU Debugger (libgdb.a)

p  libgdbm-dev                                                            - GNU dbm database routines (development files)

p  libgdbm-gst                                                            - GDBM bindings for GNU Smalltalk

p  libgdbm-ruby                                                          - GDBM interface for Ruby

p  libgdbm-ruby1.8                                                        - GDBM interface for Ruby 1.8

p  libgdbm-ruby1.9                                                        - GDBM interface for Ruby 1.9

p  libgdbm-ruby1.9.1                                                      - GDBM interface for Ruby 1.9.1

i  libgdbm3                                                              - GNU dbm database routines (runtime version)

v  libgdchart                                                            -

v  libgdchart-gd2-dev                                                    -

p  libgdchart-gd2-noxpm                                                  - Generate graphs using the GD library

p  libgdchart-gd2-noxpm-dev                                              - Generate graphs using the GD library (development version)

p  libgdchart-gd2-xpm                                                    - Generate graphs using the GD library

p  libgdchart-gd2-xpm-dev                                                - Generate graphs using the GD library (development version)

p  libgdcm-cil                                                            - Grassroots DICOM CLI bindings

p  libgdcm-java                                                          - Grassroots DICOM Java bindings

p  libgdcm-tools                                                          - Grassroots DICOM tools and utilities

p  libgdcm2-dev                                                          - Grassroots DICOM development libraries and headers

p  libgdcm2.0                                                            - Grassroots DICOM runtime libraries

p  libgdcm2.0-dbg                                                        - Grassroots DICOM runtime libraries, debug version

p  libgdict-1.0-6                                                        - GNOME Dictionary base library - runtime

p  libgdict-1.0-dev                                                      - GNOME Dictionary base library - development files

p  libgdiplus                                                            - interface library for System.Drawing of Mono

v  libgdk-imlib11                                                        -

p  libgdk-pixbuf-dev                                                      - The GdkPixBuf library - development files

p  libgdk-pixbuf2                                                        - The GdkPixBuf image library, gtk+ 1.2 version

p  libgdk-pixbuf2-ruby                                                    - Gdk-Pixbuf 2 bindings for the Ruby language

p  libgdk-pixbuf2-ruby1.8                                                - Gdk-Pixbuf 2 bindings for the Ruby language

p  libgdk-pixbuf2-ruby1.8-dbg                                            - Gdk-Pixbuf 2 bindings for the Ruby language

p  libgdkcutter-pixbuf-dev                                                - Cutter Gdk-pixbuf support (Development files)

p  libgdkcutter-pixbuf0                                                  - Cutter Gdk-pixbuf support (Shared library)

p  libgdl-1-0                                                            - GNOME DevTool libraries

p  libgdl-1-0-dbg                                                        - GNOME DevTool libraries - debug files

p  libgdl-1-3                                                            - GNOME DevTool libraries

p  libgdl-1-common                                                        - GNOME DevTool libraries - common files

p  libgdl-1-dbg                                                          - GNOME DevTool libraries - debug files

p  libgdl-1-dev                                                          - GNOME DevTool libraries - development files

v  libgdl-dev                                                            -

p  libgdl-gnome-1-0                                                      - GNOME DevTool libraries (GNOME)

p  libgdl-gnome-1-0-dbg                                                  - GNOME DevTool libraries (GNOME)- debug files

p  libgdome2-0                                                            - DOM level2 library for accessing XML files

p  libgdome2-cpp-smart-dev                                                - C++ bindings for GDome2 DOM implementation

p  libgdome2-cpp-smart0c2a                                                - C++ bindings for GDome2 DOM implementation

p  libgdome2-dev                                                          - Development files for libgdome2

p  libgdome2-ocaml                                                        - OCaml bindings for GDome2 DOM implementation

p  libgdome2-ocaml-dev                                                    - OCaml bindings for GDome2 DOM implementation

v  libgdome2-ocaml-dev-oi6i1                                              -

v  libgdome2-ocaml-oi6i1                                                  -

p  libgdraw4                                                              - font editor - runtime graphics and widget library

p  libgdu-dev                                                            - GObject based Disk Utility Library - development files

p  libgdu-gtk-dev                                                        - GTK+ standard dialog library for libgdu - development files

p  libgdu-gtk0                                                            - GTK+ standard dialog library for libgdu

p  libgdu0                                                                - GObject based Disk Utility Library

Should just need the base package, and it's development version as well to provide source etc.

Not sure about the debian package manager's naming of these, but they should be something like below.

libgd2, libgd-dev, libgd2-xpm-dev, libgd2-xpm, libpng, libpng-dev, libjpeg, libjpeg-dev, zlib, and zlib-dev

you require gd 1.6.3 or higher
just instll libgd2-dev on ubuntu also install png and jpeg library suggested by rfelsburg