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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-NZ link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>The message tells you the problem – MRTG cannot compile, because you do not have a working GD library. The most likely reason I think (since you clearly have gd.h installed) is that it is a too old version that does not support PNG, GIF or JPG.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Try doing this –<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='color:#1F497D'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>1.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='color:#1F497D'>Upgrade your GD library to the latest available version, and make sure you have the dev package as well if necessary. In Redhat Linux, this means installing the ‘gd’ and ‘gd-devel’ packages; in Debian or Ubuntu, try to install ‘libgd-dev’ (it has a lot of dependencies).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='color:#1F497D'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>2.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='color:#1F497D'>If this does not work, install from source. Download from boutell.com the GD library source, and configure and install for your system. You will also need to get libpng and libfreetype if you do not have them installed already.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>HTH<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Steve<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><span style='color:#1F497D'>Steve Shipway<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D'>s.shipway@auckland.ac.nz<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 4.0pt'><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> mrtg [mailto:mrtg-bounces+s.shipway=auckland.ac.nz@lists.oetiker.ch] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Rick Silacci<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, 6 March 2015 9:58 a.m.<br><b>To:</b> mrtg@lists.oetiker.ch<br><b>Subject:</b> [mrtg] 1 out of many error messages: checking for gdImageGif in -lgd... no<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='border:none;border-left:solid #E5E5E5 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:13.5pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#555555'>I am getting following error when configuring MRTG. I want to use it to measure bandwidth using Nagios.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:13.5pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#555555'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:13.5pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#555555'>checking for gdImageGif in -lgd... no<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:13.5pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#555555'>checking for gdImagePng in -lgd... no<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:13.5pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#555555'>checking for gdImagePng_jpg in -lgd... no<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:13.5pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#555555'>checking for gdImagePng_jpg_ft in -lgd... no<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:13.5pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#555555'>checking gd.h usability... yes<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:13.5pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#555555'>checking gd.h presence... yes<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:13.5pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#555555'>checking for gd.h... yes<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:13.5pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#555555'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:13.5pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#555555'>** Ooops, one of many bad things happened:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:13.5pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#555555'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:13.5pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#555555'> a) You don't have the GD library installed.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:13.5pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#555555'> Get it from <a href="http://www.boutell.com/"><span style='color:#0077AA;text-decoration:none'>http://www.boutell.com</span></a>, compile it and<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:13.5pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#555555'> use either --with-gd-lib=DIR and --with-gd-inc=DIR to specify<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:13.5pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#555555'> its location. You might also have to use --with-z-inc,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:13.5pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#555555'> --with-z-lib and --with-png-inc, --with-png-lib for gd<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:13.5pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#555555'> versions 1.6 and higher. Check config.log for more<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:13.5pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#555555'> information on the problem.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:13.5pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#555555'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:13.5pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#555555'> b) You have the GD library installed, but not the gd.h<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:13.5pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#555555'> header file. Download the source (see above) and use<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:13.5pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#555555'> --with-gd-inc=DIR to specify where the file can be found.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:13.5pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#555555'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:13.5pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#555555'> c) You have the library and the header file installed, but<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:13.5pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#555555'> you also have a shared GD library in the same directory.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:13.5pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#555555'> Remove the shared library files and/or links (e.g.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:13.5pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#555555'> libgd.so.2.0.0, libgd.so and libgd.so.2). This is especially<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:13.5pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#555555'> likely if you're using a recent (post 1.8.4) version of GD<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:13.5pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#555555'> and didn't configure it with --disable-shared.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:13.5pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#555555'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:13.5pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#555555'> d) You have gd library installed and also it's headers, but you are<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:13.5pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#555555'> missing libpng (and headers) or freetype (and headers)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:13.5pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#555555'> (mrtg does not use freetype, but if your copy of gd is precompiled<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:13.5pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#555555'> against it, you have to install it ...<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Thanks<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div></body></html>