in reply to installing GD.pm

I've built GD from library source many times. Your Debian libgd-dev packages seem to be damaged and one of the install scripts missed a '/' in it's file path. I'm surprised it even ran as it did. It built the library, but without the proper .h header file, the library was useless.

Get the GD source linked to above, build it yourself, it only takes a few minutes. Watch for errors. Install it as root, then reinstall the Perl Gd module.

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Re^2: installing GD.pm
by morgon (Priest) on Dec 23, 2013 at 19:50 UTC
    I don't think the package is damaged (after all I've tried the packages from both stable and testing).

    As I need GD.pm only because it is a dependency for some other software and I was not really sure that it would be even needed for my use-case I did a "make install" to see what would happen - and it seems to work. I can run all the demos, no errors.

    For whatever reason the problem I have only seems to affect the "make test".

    Weird.

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