PHP5 GD Bundled Support Fix

When Installing Open Atrium or Drupal sometimes noification show up this :

Atrium:
GD Image Filtering Low Quaity/Poor Performance
GD Image Rotation Low Quaity/Poor Performance

Drupal:
GD Library rotate and desaturate effects

It’s not such a big deal but anyway cant stand it I want everything looking green 😛
What we have to do is recompile php5 with bundled support for GD

Lets Start:

Install these: build tools, debian helpers and fakeroot

$ apt-get install build-essential debhelper fakeroot

Go to /usr/src :

$ cd /usr/src

Download PHP source

$ apt-get source php5

Install PHP5 packages

$ apt-get build-dep php5

$ cd php5-5.2.6.dfsg.1/
$ cd debian/
$ sudo nano rules

find line:

--with-gd=shared,/usr --enable-gd-native-ttf \

replace it with:

--with-gd=shared --enable-gd-native-ttf \

Go back:

$ cd ..

Now this will take some minutes while it compiles…
Build php5 packages, remember you should be in /usr/src/hp5-5.2.6.dfsg.1/ directory otherwise it will say an error.
Type:

$ dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot

Note: If it shows up error for the reason of language(locales)
configure locales with en_US.UTF-8 by typing:

$ dpkg-reconfigure locales

When finished go to /usr/src:

$ cd ..

Install the new php5-gd package:

$ dpkg -i php5-gd_5.2.6.dfsg.1-1+lenny9_amd64.deb

Note:depends on cpu structure, anyway, its the file that starts with php5-gd_5.2.6…..

Now restart your Apache server and you’re good to go:

$ sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Hope it helped 🙂