I am trying to install GD into Perl. They have a .tar.gz file which I promptly downloaded. Then I followed the CPAN instructions and entered the command from the shell: install gd

didn't work, so I moved the downloaded GD file into several Perl libraries thinking that was the problem. I tried the .tar.gz file and also unzipped the file and moved the contents into several Perl libraries like \perl\lib.

This is what I get:

cpan5> install gd

Use of uninitialized value $_[0] in string eq at I:/xampp/perl/lib/File/Spec/Win 32.pm line 152, <FIN> line 5.
Warning: no success downloading '\xampp\perl\bin\.cpan\sources\authors\01mailrc. txt.gz.tmp4984'. Giving up on it. at I:\xampp\perl\lib/CPAN/Index.pm line 225 Client not fully configured, please proceed with configuring.

You have not configured a urllist and do not allow connections to the internet to get a list of mirrors. If you wish to get a list of CPAN mirrors to pick from, use this command

o conf init connect_to_internet_ok urllist

If you do not wish to get a list of mirrors and would prefer to set your urllist manually, use just this command instead

o conf init urllist

Any ideas? I am a novice with Perl. But I'm not sure why it would try to load 01mailrc? Also I should note that I tried doing the mirror thing and I couldn't connect to the internet from XAMPP.

In reply to Trying to install GD into Perl by hsi88

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