On Apr 28, 12:59 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jbeadles) wrote: > On Apr 26, 3:19 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bart Lateur) wrote: > > > > > > > On Fri, 25 Apr 2008 07:48:35 -0700 (PDT), jbeadles wrote: > > >This upgrade is requiring me to reload DBI and DBD-ODBC. The issue is > > >that the DBD-ODBC install fails because it requires DBI 1.21. Googling > > >everything I can find over the past couple of days indicates that this > > >is a popular problem. The problem is that I can't find an Activestate > > >compatible version of DBI 1.21, and can't get the CPAN version to > > >make. I've looked in the Activestate folders of downloadable zips for > > >all Perl releases, and 1.21 does not exist. I've found: > > > >5xx - 1.14 > > >6xx - 1.34, 1.35, 1.37, 1.48 > > >8xx - 1.35 - 1.602 > > >10xx - 1.602 > > > >But no 1.21. > > > Eh, what?? > > > It requires *at least* version 1.21 of DBI. There's no need for it to be > > exactly that version. You can install anything newer. > > > -- > > Bart. > > As I've been trying to resolve all these module conflicts, I noticed > something. When I do a manual "ppm install" of a ppd, ppm does not > take into account modules in the default install when resolving > dependencies. Therefore, even though 5.10 comes with DBI 1.601, PPM > doesn't see it when installing DBD-ODBC. Hm.- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text -
After figuring this out, I did a ppm install dbd-odbc.ppd - nodeps. This worked, and I'm successfully querying the database.
