[vox-tech] cpan and botched installation of Image::Timeline

[Dylan Beaudette]

Hi everyone,

Being my first time using CPAN to install a new perl module, I thought 
that it would be a piece of cake...

I attempted to install the module Image::Timeline like this:

$ cpan

cpan> install Image::Timeline

... it downloaded and installed GD first, and then started compiling 
the Image::Timeline module
...however one of the tests failed, and would not install. I forced the 
install to see if it would work anyways, but alas a simple script that 
calls this module always fails.

here is the low down on the module:
http://search.cpan.org/~kwilliams/Image-Timeline-0.11/Timeline.pm

Right now I am stuck as to what I need to do in order to
1. remove this module from my local machine
2. re-install and save the error messages for further help from some 
kind soul

any ideas would be appreciated!



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Dylan Beaudette
Soils and Biogeochemistry Graduate Group
University of California at Davis
530.754.7341