On Ubuntu, you may be better off installing with the Synaptics Package Manager. Start Synaptics, and search for "Perl GD". Select to install the perl module, and it will ask if you want the dependencies too.... say yes.

If you want to use CPAN or a manual install, you need to install the libgd2 first. Manually from libgd homepage . Or with Ubuntu , you need the devel package 

#untested
sudo apt-get install libgd2
sudo apt-get install libgd2-dev

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In reply to Re: Can't install GD on Ubuntu by zentara
in thread Can't install GD on Ubuntu by Anonymous Monk

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