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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Out of curiosity I tried to install these on a Windows platform to see how easy they were. Using ActiveState's PPM... very easy - just did a "search GD" and "search image" and they both showed up in that search. Then just "install GD" and "install Image-Magick" and in under a minute they were all installed.
Not too bad considering some of the headaches I've had and heard of on Linux systems.
But I must admit that having them all preinstalled like they are on my pair account is probably even easier <g>
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There are some odd things afoot now, in the Villa Straylight.