Hello Monks I'm running Perl 5.12.1 on Ubuntu 10.04 and I've tried installing the Tk module for Perl thusly:

sudo perl -MCPAN -e "install Tk"
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However, the installation process always fails giving me this:

: libpng.a
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/james/.local/share/.cpan/build/Tk-80
+4.029-XzKN_H/PNG/libpng'
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/james/.local/share/.cpan/build/Tk-8
+04.029-XzKN_H/PNG/libpng'
cc -fPIC -c -Wall -O2 -I../zlib pngtest.c
cc -fPIC -s -L../zlib -o pngtest pngtest.o libpng.a -lz -lm
libpng.a(png.o): In function `png_init_mmx_flags':
png.c:(.text+0x8f): undefined reference to `png_mmx_support'
libpng.a(pngread.o): In function `png_read_row':
pngread.c:(.text+0xc61): undefined reference to `png_combine_row'
pngread.c:(.text+0xc87): undefined reference to `png_combine_row'
pngread.c:(.text+0xd16): undefined reference to `png_combine_row'
pngread.c:(.text+0xd2f): undefined reference to `png_combine_row'
pngread.c:(.text+0xd63): undefined reference to `png_read_filter_row'
pngread.c:(.text+0xd8b): undefined reference to `png_do_read_interlace
+'
pngread.c:(.text+0xdde): undefined reference to `png_combine_row'
pngread.c:(.text+0xe2a): undefined reference to `png_combine_row'
pngread.c:(.text+0xe5d): undefined reference to `png_combine_row'
pngread.c:(.text+0xe9f): undefined reference to `png_combine_row'
pngread.c:(.text+0xed9): undefined reference to `png_combine_row'
libpng.a(pngread.o):pngread.c:(.text+0xf08): more undefined references
+ to `png_combine_row' follow
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [pngtest] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/james/.local/share/.cpan/build/Tk-80
+4.029-XzKN_H/PNG/libpng'
make[1]: *** [subdirs] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/james/.local/share/.cpan/build/Tk-80
+4.029-XzKN_H/PNG'
make: *** [subdirs] Error 2
  SREZIC/Tk-804.029.tar.gz
  /usr/bin/make -- NOT OK
Running make test
  Can't test without successful make
Running make install
  Make had returned bad status, install seems impossible
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I've search Perl Monks and the Internet have not found a similar problem. How do I fix this problem?

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