GD installed or not?

Question

Ubuntu 15.04

php-v

PHP 5.6.4-4ubuntu6.2 (cli) (built: Jul  2 2015 15:29:28) 
Copyright (c) 1997-2014 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.6.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2014 Zend Technologies

apt-get install php5-gd

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php5-gd ya está en su versión más reciente.
0 actualizados, 0 nuevos se instalarán, 0 para eliminar y 7 no actualizados.

This means "PHP5-GD is installed in its latest version"

• A phpinfo() file doesn't show a GD section
• php -m | grep gd php -m | grep gd shows me nothing at all.

This is confusing for me, by a side it says I have the latest GD library version and the other side show me nothing at all about its presence.

Answer 1

Is there a special reason why you can't install PHP 7? Just a reminder that PHP 5.6 is about 6 years old, so for security reasons and long term support it would be best to use at least 7.3 .

If you are using Apache then you may need to enable the extension with something similar to:

a2enmod php5.6-gd 

I hope it helps. If that doesn't work, have a look at your php.ini (you can find the right location with phpinfo() ) and search for GD there, there is a chance you have to manually enable it for Apache in the correct INI file (not the CLI one).