It needs at least the Oracle SQL*Net software to connect to remote hosts.
To build, it also needs either Oracle's Pro*C or OCI.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Markus Fischer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 00:11
Subject: [Oracle] DBI: Oracle client libs necessary ??
> this is just a question for my understanding:
>
> Does the perl-dbi module depends/needs the oracle client library
> installation (at least) or does connecting to oracle databases on
> remote hosts work without it ?
