How To Install gd on Fedora 34

gd is A graphics library for quick creation of PNG or JPEG images A graphics library for quick creation of PNG or JPEG images

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gd on Fedora 34.

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 2.3.2 2.fc34 x86_64 140 k gd-2.3.2-2.fc34.src.rpm fedora 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 Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install gd.

Install gd on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 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 Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 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 Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove gd

gd Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/50
/usr/lib/.build-id/50/4cd93e196f62130a9b39ad8baf17d5e6436045
/usr/lib64/libgd.so.3
/usr/lib64/libgd.so.3.0.10
/usr/share/licenses/gd
/usr/share/licenses/gd/COPYING
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/a2
/usr/lib/.build-id/a2/0aeaa1cd99b00997e1802d1198f6b0735553f7
/usr/lib/libgd.so.3
/usr/lib/libgd.so.3.0.10
/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 Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.