On Fri, 8 Jun 2001, tom wrote: > simple question, I think. > Does the standard installation of Perl with debian 2.2 come with > DBI such that I can use it again either Postgres and/or Oracle > databases? > Or is this some other package I need to get?
DBI is in the package libdbi-perl - as to the database specific [DBD] driver there are 4 packages which may be of interest to you: libdbd-csv-perl libdbd-msql-perl libdbd-mysql-perl libdbd-pg-perl Or you can just go and get them from CPAN, if there isn't a package - the usual perl Makefile.PL; make; make test; make install; thing should work just fine. You'll need the client libraries for the relevant database, there should be postgresql, mysql and msql packages, the rest you'll have to get from the vendor if you need them. I currently have sybase, oracle, mysql and postgresql DBI stuff set up, so those are easiest for me to answer questions about, and I can look at DB2 if necessary... > I'm rather new to perl and somewhat old to databases in general. > I don't want to make a mistake on this one as Perl kind of does a > lot on these distro's You should be able to reinstall the perl package if things get really b0rked, I wouldn't worry too much. -- Manual? We've just been pushing buttons til it works...
