We got a fancy new RedHat AS server here at work, and our Sys Admin installed the Oracle 10.1.0.2 client on it (although the Oracle server is running version "Oracle8i Release 8.1.7.4.0"). SQL*Plus seems to work fine for connecting to our Oracle servers, despite the version difference.
I was attempting to install DBD::Oracle on this machine and, as you might expect, ran into a few problems. I guess my first question is: Should I even try to install DBD::Oracle (v 1.15) with Oracle 10.1.0.2 on RedHat AS? My sense of the situation is that this version of Oracle is too recent for DBD::Oracle, and I would prefer _not_ to make hacks/tweaks that are out of the ordinary to get it to work. If DBD::Oracle can work with Oracle 10.1.0.2, how exactly do I go about installing it? My problem is that it says my ORACLE_HOME is not valid, even though I can run SQL*Plus. If DBD::Oracle cannot work with Oracle 10.1.0.2, what version of DBD::Oracle and Oracle would you guys recommend? Remember I am running on RedHat AS w/ Perl 5.8.0 (although we may upgrade to 5.8.5 soon). Thanks in advance to anyone who answers! - Jim
