A co-worker reported he had problems installing various php modules needed by snort under NetBSD-3. Searching with Google shows a few other people have reported the same problem against FreeBSD and Linux when using the pkg system. The system has the following php / graphics packages installed php-4.4.1nb2 php-mysql-4.4.1 gd-2.0.33nb1 php-gd-4.4.1 phpinfo shows gd is installed correctly (both from the command line and web interface) Trying to use pear to install Image_Color gives the following error: root(napoleon)htdocs$ pear install Image_Color downloading Image_Color-1.0.2.tar ... Starting to download Image_Color-1.0.2.tar (-1 bytes) .........done: 33,792 bytes 'gd' PHP extension is not installed Image_Color: Dependencies failed After a lot of messing about I looked at the pear script in /usr/pkg/bin. This sets a few variables and then finally calls php so: exec $PHP -C -q $INCARG -d output_buffering=1 -n $INCDIR/pearcmd.php "$@" However a quick look at the php man pages shows the -n option tells php 'No php.ini file will be used' If you remove the -n option in the line then the pear install works fine as the php.ini file is read and shows that gd is registered. I don't much about php, but this looks like a bug in the pear script - can someone who knows a bit more about php confirm this and I will send-pr it (unless they get there first) Dave -- ===================================================================== Computing Services Dept Phone/Fax: 0151-794-3731/3759 The University of Liverpool Email: dtyson%liv.ac.uk@localhost Chadwick Tower, Peach Street WWW: http://www.liv.ac.uk/~dtyson Liverpool L69 7ZF Open Source O/S: www.netbsd.org =====================================================================