My situation:- I have a Tru64 unix systems to maintain. It was set up by a colleague who is no longer a part of this organisation.
It has perl 5.00404 with DBI and GCI plus probably many other "perl things" that I do not even know about. I have a user who wishes to use GD graph, which requires an upgrade in perl. He is in a hurry. When I upgraded perl to the latest version from CPAN I found that the use DBI no longer works (?) it complained of Can't locate DBI.pm in @INC. Some background, in case it helps... The old version of perl is installed in /usr/util/bin and there is a link in /usr/bin/ to it. When I look about the system I can not find the source for this and believe that it was copied from another system. The perl version I installed is perl-5.8.2 and I followed the default install, then made my link. I looked up DBI and found info on USING it, but not on installing it. I downloaded dbi.pm from cpan. When I swapped to the new perl and did perl dbi.pm then got the following message:- perl dbi.pm Can't load '/usr/util/lib/perl5/site_perl/alpha-dec_osf/auto/DBI/DBI.so' for mod ule DBI: dlopen: /usr/util/lib/perl5/site_perl/alpha-dec_osf/auto/DBI/DBI.so: sy mbol "Perl_dowarn" unresolved at /usr/util/lib/perl5/alpha-dec_osf/5.00401/DynaL oader.pm line 155. at dbi.pm line 253 BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at dbi.pm line 253. I do not know if I needed to start with a different DBI "kit" or if I need to use a non-default perl install. I have had very little exposure to perl and none to web programming. Sorry for the rambles I do not know what is germane. Thanks for any help you can give, if it amounts to RTFM then I would dearly like to know WhichFM, similarly for web pages. Regards Bob M
