Great, will do that then. Thank you all for your great support.
All On Thursday, 22 May 2014 11:06 AM, Ron Savage <r...@savage.net.au> wrote: Hi On 22/05/14 10:39, Daminto Lie wrote: > Thank you Chad and sorry if I sent the reply to you to your personal address. > > Before I do that, I have another question. > > I normally install and update MySQL from source manually whenever the new > version is released. Now, if I install DBD-mysql from the Ubuntu Repository > rather than from the source, would it cause any problems with the latest > version of MySQL? No. > Thank you very much > > > On Thursday, 22 May 2014 3:46 AM, Chad Wallace <cwall...@lodgingcompany.com> > wrote: > > > > > Posting back to the list... Please don't reply to me personally; I am > subscribed to the list. > > > On Tue, 20 May 2014 18:23:52 -0700 (PDT) > Daminto Lie <dli...@yahoo.com.au> wrote: > >> Thanks a lot for your reply. >> >> I think this is what I should be using to install DBI and DBD-mysql. >> >> >> But as I mentioned to John before that I think I need to get rid of >> DBI-1.641 first before running the command you suggested. please >> correct me if I'm wrong. > > Well, it doesn't seem like that DBI installation is even doing > anything. But yes, you should remove it, just to get rid of > the clutter. I would just run this: > > rm -r /root/perl5 > > Then install DBI and DBD-mysql from your distro's packaging system. > They'll be put in the correct place (one of the perl locations under > /usr/share or /usr/lib), and then spamassassin and the others will be > able to use them. > > > > >> On Wednesday, 21 May 2014 10:32 AM, Chad Wallace >> <cwall...@lodgingcompany.com> wrote: >> >> >> On Tue, 20 May 2014 17:22:58 -0700 >> >> John R Pierce <pie...@hogranch.com> wrote: >> >>> what operating system are you on? isn't there a DBI and such in the >>> OS package repository? >>> >>> for instance, on a RHEL/CentOS/Fedora type system, I'd use... >>> >>> sudo yum install perl-DBI perl-DBD-MySQL >>> >>> of course, for a different Linux distribution, or another OS >>> entirely, both the command and the package names are probably >>> different. >> >> on Debian and related distros: >> >> sudo apt-get install libdbi-perl libdbd-mysql-perl >> >> >> > > -- Ron Savage savage.net.au