Quickstart - Call to undefined function imagecreatefromjpeg

I've just purchased Simplicity template and installed Simplicity Quickstart on my dev server but the front end is erroring - I get an almost blank page (screenshot attached) with the following:

Call to undefined function imagecreatefromjpeg()
It appears the page you were looking for doesn't exist. Sorry about that.

Back end appears to work fine.

I did notice one oddity (this may be a red herring) - the quickstart install warned that display_errors is on. I checked my php.ini and it is set to off, but testing with php <?php echo get_ini('display_errors'); ?> returned no value.

I've previously installed Joomla 3.5 with sample data on this server with no problem, it is also running a copy of my live Joomla site. Each Joomla install has a separate folder and uses the same MySQL database with different table prefix setting.

Tech details - Server is Ubuntu 16.04, Apache, PHP 7.0

Ok fixed this myself my system was missing the PHP 7.0 GD graphics library. Embarassing as it is to post a problem then figure it out 5 mins later I thought I'd post the fix in case someone else hits the same error.

In terminal:

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sudo apt-get install php7.0-gd
sudo service apache2 restart


Hi

Yes that's correct. GD library is a requirement if You are using our News Show Pro module which is included in template. If someone has same error message, but cannot force GD library than necessary is to disable creating thumbnails in each NSP configuration.