With the help of Brian Haas and Ian Harisay I got DBD::Oracle working. The advice is to use the regular Oracle9i not the lite version. Another great source of help was: http://www.puschitz.com/InstallingOracle9i.html just getting 9i and 9i lite installed. I use fvwm2(nvidia X driver) as a window manager which does not work with the 9i install program, works fine with the default Gnomish(nv X driver), it could have been the X driver too.
With Redhat9 it is REAL important to set LD_ASSUME_KERNEL to 2.4.1. I didn't try this but it may be possible to install what is needed by only downloading the first disk saving some 1.3GB of download fun. I installed a custom install from the client group. The packages I installed are the Programmers section and sqlplus. I noticed that the Pro*C when on as a result of the checking the Programmers section I assume. Once Oracle was installed properly the DBD::Oracle install went as smooth as just about every other CPAN module. I don't know if Oracle is bulletproof on Linux but the install process has some problems. Thank-you for the help. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com
