| Jake Bottero 2006-04-19, 6:59 pm |
| Donatas Vyzas wrote:
> Well, if you use RPM distibution such as RH, I would strongly advice
> for using *only* RPMs for package installs. And I would like to note, that I
> do not use RPM based distribution, so I might be wrong in something.
> I believe, that you should be able to use any libraries that you
> have already with both PHP4 and PHP5. As I understand, if you want to have
> GD functionality in PHP4 and in PHP5, you should install php-gd and php5-gd
> packages also (I am not sure about their correct names, but after some
> googling looks like these packages are the ones). These are GD extensions
> for PHP4 and PHP5. I am not sure about GD package itself (if it was compiled
> statically in php-gd extension rpm, then you would not need GD itself, but
> my guess that it was compiled with dynamic support, so you need GD also).
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jake Bottero [mailto:jjb@botteronet.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2006 9:40 AM
> To: Donatas Vyzas
> Subject: Re: [PHP-INSTALL] Question about gd.so and PHP
>
> No, it's part of a RHEL3 install that I did pretty much with the Red Hat
> GUI installer. Maybe this relates to a different issue on the same machine:
>
> When I installed PHP5 on my RHEL3 box running PHP4, it had GD support
> but without FreeType. Now, my setup thus far was based entirely on the
> RPMs from the RHEL package, so first I deleted and reinstalled FreeType,
> than GD (from RPMs). No change.
>
> It occurs to me maybe I should try the non-RPM route. But I'd like to do
> this in a way that does not disrupt my existing set-up, should I not be
> able to get GD working with FreeType. I can do this by installing both
> in different locations than the existing, right?
>
> Also, I assume that I should install FreeType first, than GD?
>
> I would really like to avoid installing separate new instances of either
> of these, but I can't see a way around it. It just seems messy. Is there
> something I should look at that might get PHP5 working with the
> GD/FreeType that I have already?
>
> When I installed PHP5, I of course used the gd and freetype flags with
> the path the same as indecated in the existing PHP4 phpinfo().
There is not an RPM for php5. Not that I know of. So, if I want php5 on
RHEL3 (or 4 as far as I know), RPMs are out.
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