I suggest upgrading to the latest activestate. I see you are installing from 5.8.3, when you only have 5.8.0 (from the perl -v you sent). Were the instructions not clear enough to match? Jeff
-----Original Message----- From: John Berry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2004 9:02 AM To: Jeff Urlwin Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: cross-posted FAQ question [was: Win98 - DBD-Oracle install issue] Hi Jeff, Gone through the suggested link: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg23109.html Tried: ===== C:\Perl\DBD-Oracle-1.16>ppm install ftp://ftp.esoftmatic.com/outgoing/DBI/5.8.3/DBD-Oracle.ppd Getting an error: ============ Can't call method "name" without a package or object reference at C:/Perl/site/l ib/PPM/UI.pm line 1083. Perl Version: ========= C:\Perl\DBD-Oracle-1.16>perl -v This is perl, v5.8.0 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread (with 1 registered patch, see perl -V for more detail) Copyright 1987-2002, Larry Wall Binary build 806 provided by ActiveState Corp. http://www.ActiveState.com Built 00:45:44 Mar 31 2003 Perl may be copied only under the terms of either the Artistic License or the GNU General Public License, which may be found in the Perl 5 source kit. Complete documentation for Perl, including FAQ lists, should be found on this system using `man perl' or `perldoc perl'. If you have access to the Internet, point your browser at http://www.perl.com/, the Perl Home Page. Any clues, regards --john Jeff Urlwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Sam, > > Sorry for cross posting, was trying to get some > solution faster. No other intentions. New to this. > > I have checked the following earlier and now > but not found any clues for my issue. > > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg23137.html > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg23109.html > > Could you please point me to the right fix. If you read the second link you provide, you see a link to a site in the response. (hint: esoftmatic.com). Did you read the instructions there? Were you not able to follow them? If so, please tell me how I can improve the wording of the site to help you. Thanks, Jeff _____ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! <http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/taglines/security/*http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail/st atic/protection.html> Mail - You care about security. So do we.
