GIFgraph or GD?

Hello Linux folkz, I've got totally confused with this issue. I need to be able to plot Pareto charts and graphs based on data retrieved from MySQL DB. In a book about graphing with perl is stated that for this purposes I have to use GIFgraph package with GD. When I downloaded GIFgraph from CPAN I red that this package is deprecated and I have to use just GD for graphing in .png format. I tried to draw a line graph with GD I did 'use GD::lines'. It didn't work because GD doesn't have lines module. Could somebody clarify please what should I use to draw graphs with perl. Thank you in advance. Alex