Extension gd is missing from your system - laravel composer Update

Question

I newly install Dompdf in Laravel Project via Composer (composer require barryvdh/laravel-dompdf). After enter the Command Terminal Reply Following Errors.

Answer 1

Before installing the missing dependency, you need to check which version of PHP is installed on your system.

php -v
PHP 7.2.10-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 (cli) (built: Sep 13 2018 13:45:02) ( NTS )
Copyright (c) 1997-2018 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v3.2.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2018 Zend Technologies
    with Zend OPcache v7.2.10-0ubuntu0.18.04.1, Copyright (c) 1999-2018, by Zend Technologies

In this case it's php7.2. apt search php7.2 returns all the available PHP extensions.

apt search php7.2
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libapache2-mod-php7.2/bionic-updates,bionic-security 7.2.10-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 amd64
  server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language (Apache 2 module)

libphp7.2-embed/bionic-updates,bionic-security 7.2.10-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 amd64
  HTML-embedded scripting language (Embedded SAPI library)

php-all-dev/bionic,bionic 1:60ubuntu1 all
  package depending on all supported PHP development packages

php7.2/bionic-updates,bionic-updates,bionic-security,bionic-security 7.2.10-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 all
  server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language (metapackage)

php7.2-bcmath/bionic-updates,bionic-security 7.2.10-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 amd64
  Bcmath module for PHP

php7.2-bz2/bionic-updates,bionic-security 7.2.10-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 amd64
  bzip2 module for PHP

php7.2-cgi/bionic-updates,bionic-security 7.2.10-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 amd64
  server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language (CGI binary)

php7.2-cli/bionic-updates,bionic-security,now 7.2.10-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 amd64 [installed,automatic]
  command-line interpreter for the PHP scripting language

php7.2-common/bionic-updates,bionic-security,now 7.2.10-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 amd64 [installed,automatic]
  documentation, examples and common module for PHP

php7.2-curl/bionic-updates,bionic-security,now 7.2.10-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 amd64 [installed]
  CURL module for PHP

php7.2-dba/bionic-updates,bionic-security 7.2.10-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 amd64
  DBA module for PHP

php7.2-dev/bionic-updates,bionic-security 7.2.10-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 amd64
  Files for PHP7.2 module development

php7.2-enchant/bionic-updates,bionic-security 7.2.10-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 amd64
  Enchant module for PHP

php7.2-fpm/bionic-updates,bionic-security,now 7.2.10-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 amd64 [installed]
  server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language (FPM-CGI binary)

php7.2-gd/bionic-updates,bionic-security,now 7.2.10-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 amd64 [installed]
  GD module for PHP

php7.2-gmp/bionic-updates,bionic-security 7.2.10-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 amd64
  GMP module for PHP

php7.2-imap/bionic-updates,bionic-security 7.2.10-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 amd64
  IMAP module for PHP

php7.2-interbase/bionic-updates,bionic-security 7.2.10-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 amd64
  Interbase module for PHP

php7.2-intl/bionic-updates,bionic-security 7.2.10-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 amd64
  Internationalisation module for PHP

php7.2-json/bionic-updates,bionic-security,now 7.2.10-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 amd64 [installed,automatic]
  JSON module for PHP

php7.2-ldap/bionic-updates,bionic-security 7.2.10-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 amd64
  LDAP module for PHP

php7.2-mbstring/bionic-updates,bionic-security,now 7.2.10-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 amd64 [installed,automatic]
  MBSTRING module for PHP

php7.2-mysql/bionic-updates,bionic-security 7.2.10-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 amd64
  MySQL module for PHP

php7.2-odbc/bionic-updates,bionic-security 7.2.10-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 amd64
  ODBC module for PHP

php7.2-opcache/bionic-updates,bionic-security,now 7.2.10-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 amd64 [installed,automatic]
  Zend OpCache module for PHP

php7.2-pgsql/bionic-updates,bionic-security 7.2.10-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 amd64
  PostgreSQL module for PHP

php7.2-phpdbg/bionic-updates,bionic-security 7.2.10-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 amd64
  server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language (PHPDBG binary)

php7.2-pspell/bionic-updates,bionic-security 7.2.10-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 amd64
  pspell module for PHP

php7.2-readline/bionic-updates,bionic-security,now 7.2.10-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 amd64 [installed,automatic]
  readline module for PHP

php7.2-recode/bionic-updates,bionic-security 7.2.10-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 amd64
  recode module for PHP

php7.2-snmp/bionic-updates,bionic-security 7.2.10-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 amd64
  SNMP module for PHP

php7.2-soap/bionic-updates,bionic-security 7.2.10-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 amd64
  SOAP module for PHP

php7.2-sqlite3/bionic-updates,bionic-security,now 7.2.10-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 amd64 [installed]
  SQLite3 module for PHP

php7.2-sybase/bionic-updates,bionic-security 7.2.10-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 amd64
  Sybase module for PHP

php7.2-tidy/bionic-updates,bionic-security 7.2.10-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 amd64
  tidy module for PHP

php7.2-xml/bionic-updates,bionic-security,now 7.2.10-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 amd64 [installed]
  DOM, SimpleXML, WDDX, XML, and XSL module for PHP

php7.2-xmlrpc/bionic-updates,bionic-security 7.2.10-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 amd64
  XMLRPC-EPI module for PHP

php7.2-xsl/bionic-updates,bionic-updates,bionic-security,bionic-security 7.2.10-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 all
  XSL module for PHP (dummy)

php7.2-zip/bionic-updates,bionic-security 7.2.10-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 amd64
  Zip module for PHP

You can now proceed to installing the missing dependency by running:

sudo apt install php7.2-gd