php-gd problems on Ubuntu 8.04

Hi list, I have a PHP problem on Ubuntu 8.04, the php-gd package for ubuntu doesn't use the gd bundles library for security reasons if I understood this correctly. I solved it by downloading a php-gd fedora rpm and converting it to .deb with alien. it works for the apache websites but not for the commandline. I get the follwoing error: php /path/to/process.php variable1 variable2 Warning: Wrong parameter count for strpos() in /path/to/config.php on line 30 JpGraph Error This PHP installation is not configured with the GD library. Please recompile PHP with GD support to run JpGraph. (Neither function imagetypes() nor imagecreatefromstring() does exist)ro does anyone know how to fix this? regards Chantal