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

I used ppm to install GD package and that went successful. But a simple script which goes like 

use GD::Simple

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,got me an error which says,

Can't locate GD/Group.pm in @INC <@INC contains: C:/Perl/site/lib C:/Perl/lib .>

Please have your comments.

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Re: Error while using GD::Simple
by syphilis (Archbishop) on Jun 16, 2009 at 01:12 UTC
    Something is seriously screwed up here and I can reproduce the problem.

    On most of my ActivePerls Group.pm is in perl/lib/GD, but it's not there in build 1004 (5.10.0). I don't know whether it was *never* there, or whether 'ppm install GD::Simple' removed it.

    Which build of ActivePerl do you have ? Simply reinstalling it might fix the problem (but only if GD::Group.pm ships with that distro.) Otherwise, let us know, and we'll devise another way of getting it fixed.

    Cheers,
    Rob
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      Dear Rob,

      As on a suggestion from one user I tried installing Strawberry perl v5.10.0.

      using the command

      ppm install http://cpan.uwinnipeg.ca/PPMPackages/10xx/GD.ppd

      Again, I ran the same script using GD::Simple

      and I can see the same error which says,
      Can't locate GD/Group.pm in @INC <@INC contains: C:/strawberry/perl/lib C:/strawberry/perl/site/lib .>
      at C:/strawberry/perl/site/lib/GD/Sample.pm line 158.

      Please write to me if you need anymore information to comment on this issue. Thanks and Regards, Praveen.
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        Please write to me if you need anymore information

        No, that about covers it. Neither the GD ppm at uwinnipeg nor the one at bribes, include GD::Group.pm. I don't know why that happens - it's clearly needed for GD::Simple to be functional. GD, itself seems to be usable, but not GD::Simple ... can you use GD instead ?

        I can't see why GD/Group is not being included in the GD ppm packages. Anyone ?

        Cheers,
        Rob

        UPDATE: As an interim measure, simply grabbing a copy of Group.pm from the CPAN source distro, and placing it next to Simple.pm in your perl installation might work - if you really do need to use GD::Simple
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Re: Error while using GD::Simple
by JavaFan (Canon) on Jun 16, 2009 at 00:35 UTC
    I guess the GD install didn't go successfully then.
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