When GD is missing or not installed, a status message on line 25 in modules/color/color.install points the user to the "PHP image documentation." However, the URL is to the PHP function reference at http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.image.php . It should really go to something like the installation page at http://www.php.net/manual/en/image.installation.php

However, there's not really a page in the php.net manuals that provides particularly good help on how to solve this in an integrated LAMP-stack environment. For example, on Hardy Heron Ubuntu it's sufficient to type sudo apt-get install php5-gd and sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 reload at the command line. Such opaque references as that php.net installation page are I think more off-putting to newbies than those two lines of apt/daemon magic.

Any thoughts? Should color.install arguably be linking to a drupal.org doc page rather than one on php.net, or is it not Drupal's place to document GD?

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dpearcefl commented
Status: Active » Postponed (maintainer needs more info)

Does this issue exist in current D6?

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dpearcefl commented
Status: Postponed (maintainer needs more info) » Active

Status: Active » Closed (outdated)

Automatically closed because Drupal 6 is no longer supported. If the issue verifiably applies to later versions, please reopen with details and update the version.