[support] new installation of Drupal 5 not finding gd

[Gerhard Killesreiter]

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 outdated" (everything else reports ok).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