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

I'm really newbie to Perl and I hope nobody here minds if I ask a stupid question. But I would rather not say it's stupid because I'm totally stuck and I have fairly good knowledge in computing. So please help me install GD::Graph extension because it's needed to RT installation. Here's what I get when I try to install it: 
t/bugfixes......1/33 Problems reading t/images/logo.gif (tried: GIF gi
+f) at t/bugfixes.t line 42


#   Failed test '_read_logo_file succeeds for gif with file extension'
#   at t/bugfixes.t line 42.


#   Failed test 'The object isa GD::Image'
#   at t/bugfixes.t line 44.
#     The object isn't defined
Problems reading t/images/logo_gif_noext (tried: gif) at t/bugfixes.t 
+line 46


#   Failed test '_read_logo_file succeeds for gif without file extensi
+on'
#   at t/bugfixes.t line 46.


#   Failed test 'The object isa GD::Image'
#   at t/bugfixes.t line 48.
#     The object isn't defined
Unsuccessful open on filename containing newline at /usr/lib/perl5/GD.
+pm line 125.
Problems reading t/images/logo_xbm_noext (tried: libgd best-guess) at 
+t/bugfixes.t line 46

#   Failed test '_read_logo_file succeeds for xbm without file extensi
+on'
#   at t/bugfixes.t line 46.

#   Failed test 'The object isa GD::Image'
#   at t/bugfixes.t line 48.
#     The object isn't defined
# Looks like you failed 6 tests of 33.
t/bugfixes...... Dubious, test returned 6 (wstat 1536, 0x600)
 Failed 6/33 subtests
t/colour........ok
t/data..........ok
t/error.........ok
t/use...........ok

Test Summary Report
-------------------
t/bugfixes.t (Wstat: 1536 Tests: 33 Failed: 6)
  Failed tests:  4-7, 22-23
  Non-zero exit status: 6
Files=6, Tests=118,  1 wallclock secs ( 0.05 usr  0.00 sys +  0.32 cus
+r  0.04 csys =  0.41 CPU)
Result: FAIL
Failed 1/6 test programs. 6/118 subtests failed.
make: *** [test_dynamic] Error 255
  BWARFIELD/GDGraph-1.44.tar.gz
  /usr/bin/make test -- NOT OK
//hint// to see the cpan-testers results for installing this module, t
+ry:
  reports BWARFIELD/GDGraph-1.44.tar.gz
Running make install
  make test had returned bad status, won't install without force
Failed during this command:
 BWARFIELD/GDGraph-1.44.tar.gz                : make_test NO

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t/images/logo.gif exist.

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Re: Installing GD::Graph
by roboticus (Chancellor) on Mar 02, 2008 at 11:21 UTC
    pyc:

    You should use code tags (<c>like this</c>)around preformatted things like code and error messages, and paragraph breaks to start new paragraphs, like this:<p>

    You can see a list of those (and more) at the bottom of the preview window.

    <b>Note:</b> You can go back and fix (update) your message if you need to. However, if you <i>do</i> update your node, you should add a note to your node letting people know that you changed it. You do this so that if anyone replied to your original node, then people reading the thread can make sense of it. Otherwise some replies will look totally wrong.

    ...roboticus

    Update: Added "update" information, as suggested by (the somewhat impolite) roboticus.

    Update: Added example formatting tags for bold and italics just because...

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      Hey doofus! If you're gonna write an explanatory node, why didn't you mention the importance of updates?

      ...roboticus

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Re: Installing GD::Graph
by syphilis (Archbishop) on Mar 02, 2008 at 11:50 UTC
    Looking at the error messages ... I'm inclined to speculate that the only problem relates to gif images. That being the case, the failures could be ignored (iff one is not going to use gif images).

    Cheers,
    Rob
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Re: Installing GD::Graph
by zentara (Archbishop) on Mar 02, 2008 at 15:18 UTC
    There is a chain of dependencies that you need to check. It starts with libgd, then the GD module, then GD::Graph.

    So you may need to recompile libgd ( with the latest version), then rebuild GD, then rebuild GD::Graph to get gif support. From the GD readme: 

     libgd can now be built with support for one or more of the PNG, GIF, 
+XPM or  JPEG formats. If one or more of these formats are not support
+ed by libgd, then the corresponding GD::Image methods will be unavail
+able.                               
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+    
   As of libgd 2.0.33, GIF support is always compiled in, so (for the 
+time being!)   this is a safe fallback.

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Re: Installing GD::Graph
by ChemBoy (Priest) on Mar 03, 2008 at 01:23 UTC

    If you're not using XPM or GIF, you can totally ignore those errors, and just force install GDGraph. If you are planning to use GIF, then you might want to check if your libgd is configured to support that format. I suspect RT uses PNG anyway, so you should be fine regardless.


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