I was trying out a new Image Gallery for Joomla today (Simple Image Gallery from www.joomlaworks.gr – a great product, and free) when I came across a small problem. I primarily use Ubuntu Server 8.04 for my server side web development, and I discovered that the standard LAMP install within Ubuntu Server doesn’t install the GD image library.
As Simple Image Gallery uses this to produce it’s image thumbnails, I had to do a bit of digging to find the solution.
To install the required package use:-
sudo apt-get install php5-gd
Then restart your Apache server:-
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
