Ubuntu + PHP + GD + Solution

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If you are using PHP5 on Ubuntu and are having strange issues with missing functions including imagerotate() then you have come up against the problems created by the Ubuntu/Debian packagers decision not to include the GD library included with PHP5 but instead include a more purist version of the GD library which unfortunatley has some missing components.

Check out this blog story for the solution