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Luca Borrione
Asked: 2012-01-25 04:09:02 +0800 CST

Need help to install php gd on ubuntu with lampp (xampp)

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I'm running lampp 1.7.1 on lubuntu oneiric.
I need to add extension for php_gd.

I installed php5-gd by

sudo apt-get install php5-gd

Had a look at php.ini and noticed the line

;extension=php_gd.dll

Searched for something with php_gd and found

/usr/include/php5/ext/gd/php_gd.h

Tried to copy it to 

sudo cp -av '/usr/include/php5/ext/gd/php_gd.h' '/opt/lampp/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20060613/php_gd.h'
sudo chmod 755 '/opt/lampp/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20060613/php_gd.h'

Added to php.ini

extension=php_gd.h

Restarted lampp and got this error:

PHP Warning:  PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library
'/opt/lampp/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20060613/php_gd.h' -
/opt/lampp/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20060613/php_gd.h:
invalid ELF header in Unknown on line 0
ubuntu php xampp gd

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Why you are trying to install xampp/lampp if you already have everything on your Ubuntu repository ?

    Anyway to answer to your problem, you are trying to load a header file as a module. :) It will not work.

    For your lampp probably you should copy /usr/lib/php5/20090626/gd.so to /opt/lampp/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20060613/, but I don't know if the lampp php is compatible with Ubuntu php. Just try it.

    For configuration just use:

    extension=gd.so

    and it should work.

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  2. You can try it by installing the lamp development package instead of php-gd

    Use the link to check out for downloading the lamp development package.

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