NextGEN Gallery: Tables could not created: Yet another solution

Hi,
I have seen a number of posts regarding this error with NextGen Gallery Plugin. It seems the new version of the plugin fixes this, but if you see this error in spite of having the corresponding tables in your database you can get rid of the error by updating the plugin, going into the database and deleting the ngg_init_check entry from the options table. If you are on a network install you need to do this for every blog installed.

Also I had troubles getting the thumbnails to work. This was due to missing GD-Library support in php. Make sure you have compliled php with these options:
–with-gd \
–with-jpeg-dir=/usr/lib \
–with-libpng-dir=/usr/lib \

May this save somebody else a couple of frustrating hours 🙂