On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 11:24:02AM -0400, Jim Spath wrote: > 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.
Sounds like it's using the new Oracle Instant Client. Should work fine. You can ignore (disable) the ORACLE_HOME error. You may need to 'fiddle around' a bit but we can't help more without specific information (see the README for what we'd need). Tim.
