How To Install php-pear-Image-Text on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install php-pear-Image-Text on CentOS 7. php-pear-Image-Text is Advanced text manipulations in images

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install php-pear-Image-Text on CentOS 7.

What is php-pear-Image-Text

Image_Text provides a comfortable interface to text manipulations in GD images. Beside common Freetype2 functionality it offers to handle texts in a graphic- or office-tool like way. For example it allows alignment of texts inside a text box, rotation (around the top left corner of a text box or it’s center point) and the automatic measurement of the optimal font size for a given text box.

We can use yum or dnf to install php-pear-Image-Text on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install php-pear-Image-Text.

Install php-pear-Image-Text on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install php-pear-Image-Text using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install php-pear-Image-Text

Install php-pear-Image-Text on CentOS 7 Using dnf

If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first. Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache

After updating yum database, We can install php-pear-Image-Text using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install php-pear-Image-Text

How To Uninstall php-pear-Image-Text on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the php-pear-Image-Text package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove php-pear-Image-Text

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install php-pear-Image-Text on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.