Thanks for the input everyone. You are right Tim, it turned out the Sys Admin had only installed the "Instant Client". Once we used the developer install, everything worked out OK. Should I be able to install with the instant client only?
What made me think that DBD::Oracle 1.15 would not work (or would need a hack) was this post: http://groups.google.com/groups?q=DBD::Oracle+1.15+oracle+10g+linux+twea k&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&selm=aofi20lvmogulfe3o8kabf3g6meenj560u%40 4ax.com&rnum=1 But now that I look at it, it seems to simply be a suggestion for improving the install process. Thanks again! - Jim -----Original Message----- From: Tim Bunce [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2004 3:33 PM To: Jim Spath Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Oracle 10.1.0.2, RedHat AS, and DBD::Oracle 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.
