How To Install gd on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gd on CentOS 8.
What is gd
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. gd 2.2.5 7.el8 x86_64 144 k gd-2.2.5-7.el8.src.rpm appstream A graphics library for quick creation of PNG or JPEG images http MIT 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 or dnf to install gd on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install gd.
Install gd on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install gd using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install gd
Install gd on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install gd using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install gd
How To Uninstall gd on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the gd package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove gd
gd Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/24
/usr/lib/.build-id/24/d84c805fadf6a5e9e43adca0c8ebe0d434beec
/usr/lib/libgd.so.3
/usr/lib/libgd.so.3.0.5
/usr/share/licenses/gd
/usr/share/licenses/gd/COPYING
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/43
/usr/lib/.build-id/43/11856be23e40c43f334ecca5bca93fc9fd591b
/usr/lib64/libgd.so.3
/usr/lib64/libgd.so.3.0.5
/usr/share/licenses/gd
/usr/share/licenses/gd/COPYING
References
- [gd website](http://libgd.github.io/ http://libgd.github.io/)
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gd on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.