Re: [Apcupsd-users] Building apcupsd with --enable-cgi on CentOS 6.0 - configure: error...can't find libgd

[Adam K. <akr...@ro...>]

On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 1:38 AM, David Roth <dav...@gm...> wrote:
> I was running apcupsd.x86_64 ( 3.14.8-1.el5.rf) as a slave on CentOS 5
> x86_64. I've upgraded this server to CentOS 6.0. I've tried installing from
> an RPM but multimon.cgi, upsfstats.cgi, upsimage.cgi and upsstats.cgi aren't
> present.

The multimon cgi tools live in a separate RPM, apcupsd-multimon. This
is done so that casual users are not burdened with CGI scripts they
will not use.

> This is the kernel CentOS 6.0 is running: 2.6.32-71.29.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP
> Mon Jun 27 19:49:27 BST 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
> So I downloaded and did a build on apcupsd-3.14.10.tar.gz. It would build
> fine, but not with the cgi options I got from the manual. It complains about
> libgd missing:
> ./configure --enable-threads --enable-cgi --with-cgi-bin=/var/www/cgi-bin
> checking for gdImagePng in -lgd... no
> checking for gdImageGif in -lgd... no
> checking for gdImagePng in -lgd... no
> checking for gdImageGif in -lgd... no
> configure: error: Your system lacks the GD library which is needed for
>                          compiling the apcupsd CGI programs. Please install
>                          libgd and re-run the ./configure script.
>                          Alternatively you can disable the CGI support.
>
> I did save the yum output from this server on CentOS 5 and I don't see libgd
> there. Does libgd exist for CentOS 6?

Sure does ... "sudo yum install libgd-devel"

--Adam