On Tuesday, October 27, 2020 1:18:29 PM EDT Bruce Johnson wrote: > Or the client isn’t installed or the environment variables are not > set properly, or, or... > > RHEL, Fedora and CentOS do NOT include DBD::Oracle in their > pre-built perl modules. Like Gary I’ve always had to build it with > CPAN. You need to have an Oracle client setup installed first. > > By far the simplest method is to install the Oracle Instant Client, > (literally download the rpms from Oracle and run yum localinstall > rpmfile.rpm ) you need the base IC and the SDK rpms. > > I usually also install the SQL*Plus package but that is not strictly > necessary. It is, however, very useful for troubleshooting > connectivity. > > Then establish the ORACLE_HOME, LD_LIBRARY_PATH and TNS_ADMIN > Environment variables and appropriate config file for the latter, > then build DBD::Oracle in CPAN. I've never had an issue doing it > that way. > > If you’re using JDBC I think all you need is the base client > install.
+1 -- Garry T. Williams
