Re: Help Required:Installing DBI in Perl 5.005

Why don't you do the sensible thing and upgrade to Perl 5.8.8?

Presumably, you have a reason that seems sensible to you - though if you've
not considered the option, you should do it, and do it now (where 'do'
encompasses both 'think about installing Perl 5.8.8' and 'actually install
Perl 5.8.8').

Assuming you can't upgrade (what was the reason again?  you're kidding - you
could upgrade!) you'll probably need to dig through the release notes for
DBI to find the last version that supports Perl 5.5, and then obtain that
source manually from the CPAN archive (not by trying to use CPAN or CPANPLUS
modules).  Then you'll need to obtain a compatible version of DBD::Oracle,
and install that.

You can find DBI modules back to 1.13 at

http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-authors/id/TIMB/

The Oracle versions only go back to 1.14 - and may not cover the latest ones
either; you can hunt those down yourself.

On 1/18/07, Mohd Naim <maninfosys2003@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Dear Friends,
>               I am not having much experience in Perl except from
> programming.
> I have Perl 5.005 in Unix environment.I have no issues with running any
> PErl
> Script.
> But I cant access my Oracle Database(92) through Perl Script.
> Its throwing error
> *Can't locate object method "connect" via package "DBI"*
>
> *Can't locate dbi.pm in @INC (@INC contains:
> /usr/perl5/5.00503/sun4-solaris
> /usr/perl5/5.00503 /usr/perl5/site_perl/5.005/sun4-solaris
> /usr/perl5/site_perl/5.005 .) at PerlDatabaseConnection.pl line 10.*
> Please let me know which version of DBI shud I install and where can I get
> this.
> If we dont have Perl5.005 compatible DBI in market; then what is the other
> alternative...
>
> I also have posted the same in
> http://www.cpanforum.com/posts/4081
>
> Regards
> Naim
>
>
> Summary of my perl5 (5.0 patchlevel 5 subversion 3) configuration:
>   Platform:
>     osname=solaris, osvers=2.8, archname=sun4-solaris
>     uname='sunos localhost 5.8 sun4u sparc sunw,ultra-1 '
>     hint=previous, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
>     usethreads=undef useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef
>   Compiler:
>     cc='cc', optimize='-xO3 -xdepend', gccversion=
>     cppflags=''
>     ccflags =''
>     stdchar='char', d_stdstdio=define, usevfork=false
>     intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8
>     d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=16
>     alignbytes=8, usemymalloc=n, prototype=define
>   Linker and Libraries:
>     ld='cc', ldflags =''
>     libpth=/lib /usr/lib /usr/ccs/lib
>     libs=-lsocket -lnsl -ldl -lm -lc -lcrypt
>     libc=/lib/libc.so, so=so, useshrplib=true, libperl=libperl.so
>   Dynamic Linking:
>     dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-R
> /usr/perl5/5.00503/sun4-solaris/CORE'
>     cccdlflags='-KPIC', lddlflags='-G'
>
>
> Characteristics of this binary (from libperl):
>   Built under solaris
>   Compiled at Dec 22 1999 00:00:57
>   @INC:
>     /usr/perl5/5.00503/sun4-solaris
>     /usr/perl5/5.00503
>     /usr/perl5/site_perl/5.005/sun4-solaris
>     /usr/perl5/site_perl/5.005
>
>


-- 
Jonathan Leffler <jonathan.leffler@gmail.com>  #include <disclaimer.h>
Guardian of DBD::Informix - v2005.02 - http://dbi.perl.org
"I don't suffer from insanity - I enjoy every minute of it."

• Help Required:Installing DBI in Perl 5.005 by Mohd Naim
• Re: Help Required:Installing DBI in Perl 5.005 by Jonathan Leffler
• Re: Help Required:Installing DBI in Perl 5.005 by Peter J. Holzer
• Help Required:Installing DBI in Perl 5.005 by Mohd Naim