Comments on: Ubuntu + PHP + GD + Solution http://www.edmondscommerce.co.uk/php/ubuntu-php-gd-solution/ Freelance PHP Ecommerce and SEO Developer in the UK Sat, 11 Feb 2012 03:49:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: admin http://www.edmondscommerce.co.uk/php/ubuntu-php-gd-solution/comment-page-1/#comment-1515 admin Wed, 02 Sep 2009 15:53:24 +0000 http://www.edmondscommerce.co.uk/blog/?p=1158#comment-1515 another solution which I found a bit easier but might not be OK with Ubuntu purists is to add the dotdeb repositories to your sources. They are running a much more up to date version of PHP and with a full fat version of GD first you need to add the sources: [code] deb http://packages.dotdeb.org stable all deb-src http://packages.dotdeb.org stable all [/code] to edit your sources you can use [code] sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list [/code] and paste those two lines somewhere at the bottom. Once that's done, run these commands one after the other: [code] apt-get update apt-get upgrade apt-get install php5 php5-common php5-cli reboot [/code] It will ask you if you want to overwrite your existing configuration files. I chose to overwrite them as I know that my edits are pretty small and can easily be redone, its more important to me to have an up to date config file that fits the version I am running. I think its a real shame that Ubuntu has made this decision to not support such a core piece of the PHP puzzle. another solution which I found a bit easier but might not be OK with Ubuntu purists is to add the dotdeb repositories to your sources. They are running a much more up to date version of PHP and with a full fat version of GD

first you need to add the sources:

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  1. deb http://packages.dotdeb.org stable all
  2. deb-src http://packages.dotdeb.org stable all

to edit your sources you can use

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  1. sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

and paste those two lines somewhere at the bottom.

Once that's done, run these commands one after the other:

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  1. apt-get update
  2. apt-get upgrade
  3. apt-get install php5 php5-common php5-cli
  4. reboot

It will ask you if you want to overwrite your existing configuration files.

I chose to overwrite them as I know that my edits are pretty small and can easily be redone, its more important to me to have an up to date config file that fits the version I am running.

I think its a real shame that Ubuntu has made this decision to not support such a core piece of the PHP puzzle.

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