[Bioperl-l] Problems installing GD

[Dave Howorth]

I think you have version problems in the underlying headers and 
libraries. Check carefully that all the packages are correctly installed 
and consistent. synaptic is quite good for that.

Barry Moore wrote:
> I'm installing on an Intel box running Debian GNU/Linux 2.4

Do you mean the kernel is a 2.4 kernel?
What release of Debian are you running? woody/stable, sarge/testing, sid?

> libgd version 2.0.33

Where did you get this from? It doesn't appear to be a standard Debian 
package. I believe you need a libgd2 package, not libgd, and the 
versions for that are here:
http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?keywords=libgd2&searchon=names&subword=1&version=all&release=all
which don't match what you have.

I use woody and ended up patching it all by hand outside of apt. A real 
nightmare.

Cheers, Dave