php with GD2

[Fifield, Mike]

I am trying to install GD2 and upgrade php to version 4.2.2 but am very new to linux and am not sure what I am doing wrong. I have redhat7.3 installed and when I run "./configure -all, make, make install" it looks like everything ran ok but then I check what version of GD / php is installed and it is still the old version. My first question is, is there a rpm for GD2 somewhere that can be used on redhat7.3, and if there is not is there a good tutorial somewhere on how to install / upgrade packages on redhat when there is now rpm available.