Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > I'm using Solaris 8 on a SPARC machine and Perl is already installed. I > want to install the DBI module so I can star talking with my databases, > but I don't know how to do this. I checkout out a few websites and some > said to use "perl -? CPAN" or something like that, but that didn't work > and I don't have PPM. I'm an amateur at this so please be detailed.
perl -MCPAN -e shell will give you the CPAN shell. Then: install DBI should download, compile, test and install DBI onto your machine. You will then need to install a driver for our database as DBI is the abstraction layer. You should be able to find a list of drivers at http://search.cpan.org/modlist/Database_Interfaces. Not all database drivers will install using the CPAN method above, but each driver will come with a README file explaining how to install it. Good luck, -- Sean Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
