On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 12:18:25PM +0000, Sean Kelly wrote: > 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,
If you have problems building DBI then you'll need to either install a compiler or build your own copy of perl - for which you may need to install a compiler. Any problems building perl should be addressed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (after you've read the INSTALL file and http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html). Tim.
