Although I successfully installed GD on Windows using Strawberry, I have spent many hours trying to install the Perl module GD on Opensuse with no success. I have followed tutorials, manually installed, installed with CPAN, CPANM, tried older versions, went through YAST2 ... still nothing. I am new to linux and Perl, so please bear with me. Here is the output when I try to run circos:

missing GD
  error Can't locate loadable object for module GD in @INC (@INC conta
+ins: /home/admin/bin/circos/bin/lib /home/admin/bin/circos/bin/../lib
+ /home/admin/bin/circos/bin /home/Downloads/GD-2.56 /usr/lib/perl5/si
+te_perl/5.20.1/x86_64-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.2
+0.1 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.20.1/x86_64-linux-thread-multi /usr/
+lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.20.1 /usr/lib/perl5/5.20.1/x86_64-linux-threa
+d-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.20.1 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl .) at (eval 24
+) line 1.Compilation failed in require at (eval 24) line 1.
missing GD::Polyline
  error Attempt to reload GD.pm aborted.Compilation failed in require 
+at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.20.1/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/GD/Polyl
+ine.pm line 45.

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and here is the output when I try Makefile.PL:

** WARNING: found gd.h header file in /usr/local/include/gd.h, but it 
+is expected at /usr/include/gd.h. This may cause compile errors! **
** Possible problems found **

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issues with make:

Can't write-open blib/man1/bdf2gdfont.pl.1: Permission denied at /usr/
+lib/perl5/5.20.1/ExtUtils/Command/MM.pm line 145.
Makefile:450: recipe for target 'manifypods' failed
make: *** [manifypods] Error 13

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cpan thinks GD is installed, but running bin/circos -modules shows it isn't...

In reply to GD and GD:Polyline by last_reso

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