Oracle DBD on ubuntu

Sun Oct 15 13:02:13 UTC 2006

stan  writes:

> I've installed the Oracle XE package, and I can access the database
> instance with  sqlplus. But I need to use perl with the DBD.

> How can I install the perl DBD module? I downlaoded it from CPAn, and I set
> ORACLE_HOME, but the compile fails with unresolved sumbols.

Have you tried to use the CPAN module[1] to install the module you
need?  The CPAN perl module would take care of any internal
dependencies.

You can start the CPAN module with

perl -MCPAN -e shell

HTH,

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[1] http://search.cpan.org/~jhi/perl-5.8.0/lib/CPAN.pm

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--Jhair