If you’re working with PHP software, you’ll often need image processing software to support complex processing of images in PHP. Most commonly, you will be using the GD or Imagemagick libraries.
To install Imagemagick on Ubuntu for PHP:
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apt-get install imagemagick php5-imagick --no-install-recommends |
To install GD on Ubuntu for PHP:
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apt-get install php5-GD --no-install-recommends |
Some PHP software, such as MediaWiki, prefer for servers to have the “intl” PECL package to be installed. On Ubuntu you can insall it as a precompiled package from the official repositories:
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sudo apt-get install php5-intl --no-install-recommends |
If you start from a clean Ubuntu install and you want to build the package yourself, you might not have all of the dependencies installed. Run this command to make sure you have all of the prerequisites installed:
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sudo apt-get install gcc linux-headers-$(uname -r) libicu-dev php5 php5-dev php-pear build-essential --no-install-recommends |
To build the package itself:
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sudo pecl install intl |
You might also have to restart your webserver if you manually build the package. For Apache, run:
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sudo service apache2 restart |
Elementary OS 0.2 Jupiter is the first stable release of Elementary OS and was release just over 10 days ago. I’ve been using the OS on one of my production machines for a week now and I’d like to share some of my thought about the OS.
Elementary OS is an Ubuntu remix, though things aren’t all that different. The only real difference between Ubuntu and Elementary OS is the interface. Elementary OS uses a custom built shell that runs on top of Gnome. The shell is clearly designed to resemble Mac OSX. The interface looks very sleek and tidy, is very responsive and overall I must say that it works really well.
As for functionality, the interface unfortunately doesn’t really add any, at the bottom of your desktop you will see a dock such as in Max OSX, opened programs will show up on the dock and you can easily stick them to do the dock to quick launch them. Aside from the dock, the interface seems to actually reduce the functionality of the Ubuntu desktop environment. The Desktop itself is completely gone, you can no longer put any files or folders onto the desktop and aside from this you no longer have multiple desktop support.
The OS still has a couple of bugs to iron out, often folders like Documents won’t launch and there’s a few other minor bugs.
Overall even though there’s some reduced functionality and small bugs, I must say I’m very satisfied with this new distro, the new interface looks very clean and is fun to use, it reduces that basic feel to Gnome while retaining the performance.
Note that you can use Ubuntu Tweak to bring back a lot of the functionality that was removed.