How To Install gd.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install gd.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. gd.x86_64 is A graphics library for quick creation of PNG or JPEG images

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gd.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `gd.x86_64`

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.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install gd.x86_64.

Install gd.x86_64 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.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install gd.x86_64

How To Uninstall gd.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the gd.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove gd.x86_64

gd.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libgd.so.2
/usr/lib64/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.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install gd.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.