Hi I am taking this question from another thread in the hope that someone can help. I currently trying to install mysource on Fedora 3. I have successfully installed all the PEAR packages required and am now trying to get past step 4. It tells me I need to have GD installed before moving on.
GD and PHP are both installed but it appears that the mysource web install fails to see this. It may be that PHP needs to be recompiled to use GD but I don't have a clue how to do this. I am basically a windows mad and am very new to Linux.
Can anyone help me get past this hurdle? Please.
If you're running Fedora Core 3, there is a PHP package that enables GD support. If you run
# up2date php-gd
FC will download and install the required package. You could also use Yum, which is preconfigured on FC3, by running
# yum install php-gd
If you follow the installation instructions at http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/apt/ you can also install php-mmcache (using the Yum instructions), which will install and enable the Turck MMcache PHP accelerator (which gives a nice performance improvement).
Thanks for this info… Hopefully it is will get me onto the next step and then who knows I might get through the end of the installation. 
The installer checks for the presence of the gd_info() function. If this function doesn't exist, then GD isn't configured correctly.
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I now have GD and PHP right. I managed to get through all the steps to installation but when I got to the end had trouble when trying to go to the new site… I was told that URL could not be found… (I have created a Virtual Server using Webmin and I have added the alias info into the virtual section in the config file and restarted apache.)
So… I decided to start again. I removed the old installation folder and replaced it with a fresh copy of the web install files. crated another site in which to install mysource and began the process again… now. I ge the same message …
“Could not successfully include the Matrix version of XML_Tree. You may experience further errors later in the install. .:/usr/share/pear”
Could it be a directory permission issue? I have set all the data directoriy sub directories to 777 . Could it be that the installation can’t find the PEAR files? Last time I went through the process I was asked where they were and so far I have not been asked this question (although I think it was at a later step and as I can’t move on until the XML_TREE issue is resolved I am stuck)
I am currently installing this on a test server - I have to go through all of this again on the ‘real’ web server next.
in the main.inc file located in [MATRIX ROOT]/data/private/conf/main.inc there is a line that says something like
define(‘SQ_CONF_PEAR_PATH’, ‘/home/username/mysource_matrix/php_includes’);
make sure the /home/username/mysource_matrix/php_includes part points to the right location.
To know the exact location go into the php_includes directory under matrix root and type pwd, in the terminal. Place the output of that command instead of /home/username/mysource_matrix/php_includes
Thanks for this… however, I don't appear to have the mail.inc file in my config directory - it is empty. Is it a hidden file? or is it not yet created? can I create one myself and place the info in it?
NO, don't create it. I misread your post and assumed you've already gone past the initial installation steps.
Web installer gurus, come out of the shadows!
Did it come up in a blue mysource box? If so, that means you've installed successfully, just that you haven't got a site configured there yet. You need to go to URL/_admin to login to the admin backend.
Does the [matrix]/php_includes directory exist and is readable by the webserver? Is there a Tree/XML.php directory/file there?
Well, at last I have jumped through all the hoops. Now I have it installed and have a login screen. The problem it is the username and password I provided througout the installation is not recognised. 'User not found' Should I remove it all and start again? or is there another way?
You should be using "root" and "root" as the default username and password 
I have just tried root and root and no luck… in the end it has now locked root. Looks like a new install… again… tell me it is worth it, please…
Do I need to provide root and root in the instalation process?
oops, The root password is the one you supplied during installation … the username is root :o
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Nope. After the volume of posts made getting the installer to run the forum now considers you a "Member"…
Wow! I might be an 'Advanced Member' soon Thanks for all the hlp that I have received… I am sure that I will have more questions in the days ahead…