installing GD and gd module

Question

I am having trouble installing the gd library and gdmodule for python firstly I have done

sudo apt-get install mercurial
sudo apt-get install libgd2-xpm-dev

then trying to install the gd module using sudo python Setup.py install which I downloaded from http://newcenturycomputers.net/projects/gdmodule.html

I get the warning WARNING: missing gd, jpeg, png, gif, z, x11, Xmp, rtf, freetype Libraries Can't Find GD Libraries

How can I install both properly, I get no errors when installing the first two. I am completely stuck and I am very new to using Ubuntu, so do not know a lot.

Answer 1

You don't need to install gd from source, it's in the repositories:

sudo apt-get install python-gd

If, for some reason, you still want to install from source, it's easy to install all build dependencies as well:

sudo apt-get build-dep python-gd