title: Perl GD module won't install -
body: <p>I'm trying to figure out why I can't get the GD perl module to install on my Debian 7 server. Here is how I installed the core stuff:</p>
  
  <pre class="lang-none prettyprint-override"><code>sudo apt-get install libgd-gd2-perl
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Then running the -MCPAN to install, I get:</p>
  
  <pre class="lang-none prettyprint-override"><code>root@myserver:~# sudo perl -MCPAN -e 'install GD'
  Going to read '/root/.cpan/Metadata'
    Database was generated on Sun, 19 Jul 2015 21:41:02 GMT
  Running install for module 'GD'
  Running make for L/LD/LDS/GD-2.56.tar.gz
  Checksum for /root/.cpan/sources/authors/id/L/LD/LDS/GD-2.56.tar.gz ok
  
    CPAN.pm: Going to build L/LD/LDS/GD-2.56.tar.gz
  
  Configuring for libgd version 2.0.36.
  Checking for stray libgd header files...none found.
  
  Unknown option: installdirs
  Usage: perl Build.PL [options]
  
  Configure GD module.
  
   Options:
       -options       "JPEG,FT,PNG,GIF,XPM,ANIMGIF"   feature options, separated by commas
       -lib_gd_path   path            path to libgd
       -lib_ft_path   path            path to Freetype library
       -lib_png_path  path            path to libpng
       -lib_jpeg_path path            path to libjpeg
       -lib_xpm_path  path            path to libxpm
       -lib_zlib_path path            path to libpng
       -ignore_missing_gd             Ignore missing or old libgd installations and try to compile anyway
  
  If no options are passed on the command line.  The program will
  attempt to autoconfigure itself with the gdlib-config program (present
  in GD versions 2.0.27 or later).  Otherwise it will prompt for these
  values interactively.
  Warning: No success on command[/usr/bin/perl Build.PL --installdirs site]
    LDS/GD-2.56.tar.gz
    /usr/bin/perl Build.PL --installdirs site -- NOT OK
  Running Build test
    Make had some problems, won't test
  Running Build install
    Make had some problems, won't install
  Could not read metadata file. Falling back to other methods to determine prerequisites
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I've done a load of googling, but nothing seems to fix it. Any suggestions?</p>