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Christos Hayward
Asked: 2014-05-22 05:02:54 +0800 CST

How, under Ubuntu, can I get Wordpress past this error (GD Library not installed)?

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A Wordpress installation I am working on, for some images, is giving an error, "GD Library Error: imagecreatetruecolor does not exist - please contact your webhost and ask them to install the GD library".

How can I install and/or connect the GD Library, on an Ubuntu server, so that Wordpress sees what it needs to display these images?

Thanks,

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4 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Install gd:

    sudo apt-get install php5-gd
/etc/init.d/apache2 restart

    And verify:

    php5 -m | grep -i gd

    That should do the trick!

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  2. Install php GD module:

    sudo apt-get install php5-gd

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  3. For PHP 7.0 use 

    sudo apt-get install php7.0-gd
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  4. The right way to do this is to find the version of PHP you are using and then install that version of GD:

    ~$ php --version
PHP 7.3.19-1+ubuntu16.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 (cli) ...

    I'm running PHP 7.3 so I check apt:

    ~$ apt search php7.3-gd
Sorting... Done
Full Text Search... Done
php7.3-gd/xenial,now 7.3.19-1+ubuntu16.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 i386 [installed]
  GD module for PHP

~$ sudo apt-get install php7.3-gd
...

~$ sudo systemctl restart apache2
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