[San-Diego-pm] Finding GD.pm
Joel Fentin
joel at fentin.com
Wed Aug 2 11:19:40 PDT 2006
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
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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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