Adam Kennedy wrote:
>
> Afternoon
>
> I've got a couple of slackware boxes at the office here that I need to get
> DBD::mysql ( Perl database connectivity ) installed onto, and I was
> wondering what the procedure would be.
>
> Normally on Redhat I would just install the mysql-client and mysql-devel
> rpms and then install DBD::mysql from there, but slackware obviously doesn't
> use rpms...
>
> Now I could grab the source and compile, but last time it was a pain, so if
> anyone knows whether slackware has a package management system, I'd like to
> try that first.
No, but perl has a package management system called CPAN.
Probably what you want to do is this:
perl -MCPAN -e shell
(answer all of the questions)
install DBI::DBD
install DBD::mysql
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