Installing Drupal

Hi all, this is my problem:

I have finished installing and configuring drupal but I'm unable to see any images on my website, even css styles seem to be inactive. Any ideas of what I'm not doing in the correct way?

I get these errors when trying to upload a new image (it displays the full-sized image but no thumbnail):

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Unable to create thumbnail image

warning: imagecreatetruecolor(): requires GD 2.0 or later in /home/httpd/vhosts/xxxxxx.com/httpdocs/includes/image.inc on line 221.

warning: imagecopyresampled(): requires GD 2.0 or later in /home/httpd/vhosts/xxxxxx.com/httpdocs/includes/image.inc on line 222.

warning: imagejpeg(): supplied argument is not a valid Image resource in /home/httpd/vhosts/xxxxxx.com/httpdocs/includes/image.inc on line 296.

Hi friends,
I have trying to install "image" module on Debian 3.1. The necessary steps followed are:
1) I maked "/home/tmp" directory to open the tar.gz file (so, do you think that should be better on /usr/local directory ??);

2)Next I made another "/home/tmp/usr" directory to run "image/" file that was maked when I opened tar.gz file, where I will use the next command:
@/home/tmp/usr/image$ ./configure --prefix=/tmp/usr --with-qt-dir=/usr/share/qt3, but in this step the system tells me:
bash: ./configure: There is not file or directory

Okay, I figured out how to set this all up, its my first time, im a newbie at this thing. When I got to the set up page to creat an admin username, i click on create the first account and it brings me to a page in my website. Can someone help me? Or at least tell me why its doing this?

Sorry if that is a frequent question, I have searched but not found an answer.

I would like to configure our site so that subscribed users receive e-mail copies of posts to the forum.

Is that standard behaviour? Am I missing something? Is there a module for doing that?

Thanks for any help,

Leonardo

hi;
i cant view the images, it gives me a message that i have to install gd. i downloaded the gd but it is configured through the command promt.
does anyone have an idea about that?