[San-Diego-pm] Finding GD.pm

[Emile Aben]

Hi Joel,

How about some people guiding you through the process of installing
this module at the next PM meeting? I would certainly be willing to
help you (which would
prevent me from sending long emails that are not very helpful to you).


Emile

On 8/2/06, Joel Fentin <joel at fentin.com> wrote:
> Douglas Wilson wrote:
> >
> >
> > Joel Fentin wrote:
> >
> >> Much of the above is Greek to me. I have only used Windows and before
> >> that DOS. GD is installed in my computer and working. I need it on a
> >> server.
> >>
> >> 1. Are you saying that I should download the tar/GZ and then upload it
> >> to the server via ftp?
> >
> > Is the server Unix/Linux, or is it Windows (ActiveState perl)?
> >
> > If it is Windows, then I would get the ppd package from ActiveState.
> >
> > But otherwise, yes, download the tar/gz and upload it to the server.
> >
> >>
> >> 2. Are you saying I should run these programs on the server?
> >> perl Makefile.PL
> >> make
> >> make test
> >> make install
> >>
> >> 3. None of these programs mention GD. Is there something automatic
> >> about GD?
> >
> > This is the "normal" install process that most people not on Windows
> > go through (note: I'm not going to get into CPAN.pm and CPANPLUS.pm for
> > now which are basically shortcuts for the above if you know how to use
> > them).
> >
> > After you unpack the tar/gz file, you cd to the directory, where there
> > should be a Makefile.PL file, and then you run the above commands.
> > If GD has other dependencies, then it should complain during
> > "perl Makefile.PL" and you'll have to repeat the download/install
> > process for any other modules that need to be installed first.
> >
> > HTH,
> > Doug
> =========================
> =========================
> Doug, You didn't quite address my questions.
>
> When you say "unpack the tar/gz file", do you mean I ftp them to the
> server first and unpack them there? Which of the 4 commands you
> mentioned is the one that unpacks it?
>
> When you say "...where there should be a Makefile.PL file...", do you
> mean to say that I should ftp Makefile.PL up to the server?
>
> Remember, I have no direct access to anything perl on the server. Only
> htdocs and cgi-bin. My idea is to get this into cgi-bin or a
> subdirectory thereof.
>
> Again, since none of the 4 commands mention GD, is there something
> automatic about GD so that its presence is known?
>
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