How To Install gd.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install gd.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. gd.i686 is A graphics library for quick creation of PNG or JPEG images

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gd.i686 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `gd.i686`

The gd graphics library allows your code to quickly draw images complete with lines, arcs, text, multiple colors, cut and paste from other images, and flood fills, and to write out the result as a PNG or JPEG file. This is particularly useful in Web applications, where PNG and JPEG are two of the formats accepted for inline images by most browsers. Note that gd is not a paint program.

We can use yum to install gd.i686 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install gd.i686.

Install gd.i686 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install gd.i686 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install gd.i686

How To Uninstall gd.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the gd.i686 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove gd.i686

gd.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/libgd.so.2
/usr/lib/libgd.so.2.0.0
/usr/share/doc/gd-2.0.35
/usr/share/doc/gd-2.0.35/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/gd-2.0.35/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/gd-2.0.35/README-JPEG.TXT
/usr/share/doc/gd-2.0.35/index.html

References

gd.i686 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install gd.i686 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.