Need Help with Installing GD.pm

davidj01 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi,

I'm trying to install GD.pm. Was wondering if anyone had this error when I run make test

 make test
PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /usr/bin/perl "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e" "test_h
+arness(0, 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')" t/*.t
t/GD..........Can't load './blib/arch/auto/GD/GD.so' for module GD: li
+bjpeg.so.8: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
+ at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/i386-linux-thread-multi/DynaLoader.pm line 2
+30.
 at t/GD.t line 14
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Or can anyone help me interpret the above.

Thank-you

David J.

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Re: Need Help with Installing GD.pm by moritz (Cardinal) on Apr 27, 2010 at 18:47 UTC
Looks like libjpeg.so.8 is missing. On my Debian system there are `libjpeg.*-dev` packages that provide such files - installing one of them should help. Perl 6 - links to (nearly) everything that is Perl 6.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Need Help with Installing GD.pm by davidj01 (Novice) on Apr 28, 2010 at 14:38 UTC
Hi, It turns out that for module libjpeg.so.8 was symlinked to libjpeg.so.8.0.1 in /usr/local/lib I deleted the symlink and created a copy with the name libjpeg.so.8 This worked. (Probably this wasn't right thing to do - ie how do I get the make of GD-2.44 to recognize the symlink) Now the next problem: `libpng warning: Application was compiled with png.h from libpng-1.4.1 libpng warning: Application is running with png.c from libpng-1.2.7 gd-png: fatal libpng error: Incompatible libpng version in applicatio +n and library` [download] I installed 1.4.1 . Does this mean GD-2.44 doesn't work with 1.4.1 and I need to uninstall it and install the older version 1.2.7 BTW thanks so far. David J.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Need Help with Installing GD.pm by marto (Cardinal) on Apr 27, 2010 at 21:37 UTC
See the README file, the JPEG library is optional, but you may as well install it.	[reply]