[CentOS] Help with PERL install of GD

Tue Oct 30 20:52:14 UTC 2007
Scott Ehrlich <scott at MIT.EDU>

On Tue, 30 Oct 2007, Garrick Staples wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 03:40:07PM -0400, Scott Ehrlich alleged:
>> On Tue, 30 Oct 2007, Garrick Staples wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 01:23:03PM -0400, Scott Ehrlich alleged:
>>>> In an attempt to install bugzilla on a 64-bit C5 system, following
>>>> http://www.nabble.com/bugzilla-3.0.x-installation-on-FC7-t4656333.html
>>>>
>>>> Most all modules from that page install fine, but GD install attemps
>>>> keep crashing.
>>>>
>>>> What am I missing?
>>>
>>> 'yum install perl-GD' works fine for me.  What is your error message?
>>
>> This is for a bugzilla install.   I did find a reference to a perl-gd rpm
>> which  solved that problem.
>>
>> Final obstacle, for now, is  finding apxs or finding a way to obtain
>> ap_release.h.  I did perform an apache install via yum, and httpd -v
>> returns 2.2.3.
>
> 'yum provides apxs' tells you it is in the httpd-devel package.
>

Very true and I've now learned another feature - the 'provides' option of 
yum.

Thanks.

Scott