[support] new installation of Drupal 5 not finding gd - SOLVED

[Miles Fidelman]

turns out that my php.ini contained:
;extension=gd.so

took out the ";" and all seems fine

Thanks!

Miles

Gerhard Killesreiter wrote:
> Miles Fidelman wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> I just installed a brand new Drupal 5, on a Debian Sarge box.
>>
>> The admin script is reporting "The GD library for PHP is missing or 
>> outdated" (everything else reports ok).
>>
>> The thing is, I think I have gd installed properly and as up to date as 
>> the current package library provides (apt-get upgrade php4-gd reports 
>> that I'm up to date).
>>
>> So... any thoughts or suggestions?
>>     
>
> check phpinfo() if GD is really enabled.
>
>   
>> - do I need a later version of gd?
>>     
>
> Probably not
>
>   
>> - is it perhaps something in the search path (pointers or diagnostic 
>> suggestions much appreciated)
>>     
>
> No, something in php.ini
>
>   
>> - what doesn't work if I don't have gd properly installed?
>>     
>
> Color.module, resizing images...
>
> Cheers,
> 	Gerhard
>