I use pair.com servers which seem to have nearly all the well known Perl modules installed already - so I am largely spoiled and don't know a lot of the pain of installing many of the modules (have done some on my home linux boxes).

but from what I have seen discussed on here - if the person had trouble installing GD - they are going to have *way* more problems installing ImageMagick. Doing a search on ImageMagick issues always includes someone having problems installing it, and the usual answer is for the person to use GD instead.

Like I said, I have never had to install either of them - so what I say is only from what I have read on here in the past.

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