[ale] Oracle DBD-DBI

[Jim Popovitch]

I'll break from the fold and tell you that Oracle 9i installs fine on
recent versions of Linux.  Oracle includes instructions on their site
(technet.oracle.com) for how to download and install a basic DB on
Linux.  I've installed it several times w/o any problems, ymmv.  Two
things worth mentioning:  have at least 3GB free space (yes, 3GB), and
get rid of any recent versions of Java (including any $JAVA_HOME
settings).

Good luck,

-Jim P.

On Mon, 2004-06-21 at 18:24, Armsby John-G16665 wrote:
> This is probably a repeat questions BUT I can find the previous
> answer....
>  
> I am running redhat 9 std install.  I want to connect to a remote
> Oracle 8 machine via Perl.  I have the DBD Oracle 1.5 tar file. 
> Unfortunately it complains about an ORACLE_HOME environmental
> variable.  perl Makefile.PL bombs out....
>  
> From reading the clients.readme file, it appears that I must have
> Oracle files on my machine in order to access Oracle on another
> machine.  I am a bit confused.  My expertise to date is win32::odbc
> with perl and access.  My plan is to move Access to MYSQL but I also
> have to get at a table on a remote Oracle 8 machine.
>  
> Anyone use DBD to get at oracle?  What do I have to install?  
>  
>  
> John
>  
> 
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