Unable to locate package php7.3-gd

Question

I get the error from my cakephp 2.x project:

The PHP GD extension is required, but is not installed.

I use php7.3 with apache on debian

I search and find

apt-get install php7.3-gd

I tried this but i only get following error:

E: Unable to locate package php7.3-gd
E: Couldn't find any package by glob 'php7.3-gd'
E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'php7.3-gd'

I searched again, but didnt find a soulution for this problem only for ubunto and nothing else worked. I hope someone could help me with this problem.

Kwabena

Answer 1

It looks like you do not have the appropriate repo added. Try :

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y php7.3-gd

Aorangi

if i do this following message comes: /bin/sh: 1: add-apt-repository: not found The command '/bin/sh -c add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php' returned a non-zero code: 127 – Kwabena

add-apt-repository is probably not installed, try sudo apt-get install software-properties-common – Aorangi

wow, now even this is broken :/ Exception in thread Thread-1: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python3.7/threading.py", line 917, in _bootstrap_inner self.run() File "/usr/lib/python3.7/threading.py", line 865, in run self._target(*self._args, **self._kwargs) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/softwareproperties/SoftwareProperties.py", line 688, in addkey_func func(**kwargs) – Gyp

Answer 2

@Will's answer did not work for me, I then replace the first command from sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php to sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ondrej/php and it works for me. So finally I run:

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ondrej/php    
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y php7.3-gd

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