Trying to use GD module

ichimunki has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I have dl'ed and installed the libgd latest version from scratch. I have dl'ed and run standard install for GD from CPAN. All looks swell. Until...

$ perl -e "use GD;"
Can't load '/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/ppc-linux/auto/GD/GD.
+so'
for module GD: libgd.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such fil
+e or 
directory at /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.0/ppc-linux/DynaLoader.pm line 2
+00. at -e line 1
Compilation failed in require at -e line 1.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at -e line 1.
$ cd /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/ppc-linux/auto/GD/
$ ls
GD.bs
GD.so
autosplit.ix
libgd.a
libgd.la
libgd.so
libgd.so.4
libgd.so.4.0.0
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Is there some key I'm missing?

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Re: Trying to use GD module by Fastolfe (Vicar) on Jan 01, 2001 at 22:56 UTC
Update: Ignore previous post. New Year's Resolution #18: Read before posting. Perhaps you installed your GD package in a place that the Perl GD module didn't know about? Was it able to find the GD headers/etc when you installed it originally? What are the pathnames to the original libgd.so* files? The GD.pm won't be looking in its own module directory for these libraries. That means it needs to be able to find them in a "standard" library directory (e.g. /usr/lib, /usr/local/lib perhaps, etc.).	[reply]
Re: Re: Trying to use GD module by ichimunki (Priest) on Jan 01, 2001 at 22:58 UTC
that's libgd. unless there's a piece of it that I completely overlooked, I have a fresh install of that. update: It turned out to be a libgd problem, as Fastolfe suggested. Although it was installed, it had gone to the wrong /lib. I set -prefix differently during the ./configure step, and it worked out fine.	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: Trying to use GD module by Fastolfe (Vicar) on Jan 01, 2001 at 22:59 UTC
I updated my node to re-phrase my question just as you replied, sorry.	[reply]