Installing GD library on Slack with packages

rmg · 07-02-2006, 03:59 PM

I've got Slackware 10.2 running without GUI.
I installed Apache 2 and PHP 5 and mysgl 5 packages from linuxpackages.net

Now I wanted to add the GD library, but I can't get it to work

I tried installing the package from linuxpackages.net, but it didn't work out

I don't know where to go on?

rmg · 07-03-2006, 02:23 AM

I'm really desperate

rmg · 07-04-2006, 04:06 PM

Can anybody help?

rmg · 08-02-2006, 05:52 AM

Ok, I managed to install GD, but my php 5.1.4 (installed from a package) still doesn't load it. The php install should use shared modules and it searches for a gd.so file, but my GD install made a libgd.so. So if I change the gd.so to libgd.so in php.ini the apache error says smth like it ain't a php extention :S
I cannot use the gd.so that came with the package and lies in /usr/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20050922/gd.so because it has a dependecy with X11 which I do not have installed. My own compiled gd doens't have that dependecy. What should I do to make php5 load the GD correctly. Please don't say that the only solution is compiling the php5 on my own machine.