How do I add GD to my LAMP server? (dummy-level answer please!)

Please read the man page here:
http://us2.php.net/manual/en/image.setup.php

Thanks, Ray.

It says:
GD NOT INSTALLED

Which I'd suspected since phpinfo() didn't say anything about it.

So ... for my step-by-step, I would:
1. Download both the PNG and JPG libraries linked from the requirements page
2. "configure PHP --with-gd[=DIR]"

where do I type that phrase?  In a config file somewhere?  surely not just in my PuTTY session?

As you've suspected, Linux configuration is not my cup of tea ... so thanks for your patient help!

Thanks, Marmata75.  that appeared to work ... but ... Ray's GD detection script still says GD NOT INSTALLED and my graphs still don't work.  And phpinfo still does not list GD.

Did I do something wrong?

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Hi Daniel,

sorry forgot to say you should restart apache to have the new extension properly recognized. Can you just type "sudo apache2ctl restart" at the command prompt, and verify if it's working now?

Thanks,
]\/[arco

I restarted but got errors ... apache is running again, but still w/o GD

dwilson@williamston:/etc/init.d$ /etc/init.d/apache2  restart
 * Restarting web server apache2                                                [Mon Jan 04 07:36:58 2010] [warn] NameVirtualHost *:443 has no VirtualHosts
httpd (pid 18002?) not running
[Mon Jan 04 07:37:08 2010] [warn] NameVirtualHost *:443 has no VirtualHosts
(13)Permission denied: make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:80
no listening sockets available, shutting down
Unable to open logs

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Awesome.  Thanks!