Title: Insert image resizing not working
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Insert image resizing not working

 *  [forquare](https://wordpress.org/support/users/forquare/)
 * (@forquare)
 * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/insert-image-resizing-not-working/)
 * Hi all,
 * I’ve been used to running WordPress on services such as Dreamhost where installation
   was automatic. I now have an self managed server where I have installed WordPress
   myself.
 * My problem is that when I go to add an image to a post, the radio buttons allowing
   me to make the image smaller are disabled.
    A few articles I’ve read on these
   forums and others suggest reinstalling the GD libraries, and php5-gd, then restarting/
   reloading apache. I’ve done the following:
 *     ```
       apt-get install php5-gd libapache2-mod-php5 libgd2-noxpm libjpeg62 libpng12-0
       /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
       ```
   
 * But still no joy.
    I’ve got my phpinfo [here](http://hashbang0.com/phpinfo.php)
   and was wondering if anyone knows what packages I might need to install to get
   this working? The WordPress site only states that MySQL and PHP are required 
   to get WordPress running, but I can’t find more specific requirements to get 
   full functionality…
 * Many thanks,
    Ben

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 *  [s_ha_dum](https://wordpress.org/support/users/apljdi/)
 * (@apljdi)
 * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/insert-image-resizing-not-working/#post-2094158)
 * That is strange. I thought that the GD library was what powered that editor and
   looking at the code GD is the only thing mentioned.
 *  [gnuzilla](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gnuzilla/)
 * (@gnuzilla)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/insert-image-resizing-not-working/#post-2094469)
 * Last I checked, and I hope I’m wrong.
    php5-gd has a dependency for libgd2-xpm.
 * You can’t have both libgd2-noxpm and libgd2-xpm at the same time.
 * If your hosts compiles their own packages, they could have made php-gd with libgd-
   noxpm instead. But if they use default packages or customize from default packages,
   your forced to use libgd-xpm.
 * I have confirmed this, only for Ubuntu lucid.
    and also recent Debian. Might 
   not apply to your distro, as you did not have it listed.
 * And about the lacking detailed PHP extension requirements, I’ve seen this BS 
   on other projects. For some reason, projects think they don’t need to explicitly
   say which extensions are required/optional.
    I disagree, obviously I think that
   would be good to know.

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 * [image resizing](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/image-resizing/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 2 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [gnuzilla](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gnuzilla/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/insert-image-resizing-not-working/#post-2094469)
 * Status: not resolved

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