On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 08:58:32PM -0800, sonny e. supilanas wrote:
> hi, i'm totally new to oracle, we have a webserver running on mandrake
> and can make queries to mysql dbase using perl/cgi scripts on same unit
> which works fine for our sites. but now, we have to connect to a remote
> oracle dbase w/c is on a remote server. i'm trying to install DBD:oracle
> module for perl connect string to oracle dbase, but compilation of this
> module aborts cause it looks for ORACLE_HOME parameters, where can i get
> a free oracle clients for linux or sources of these oracle libraries for
> linux so i can rebuild the Makefile.pl of the DBD:oracle module and set
> the required parameters...i've been trying to download it from OTN site
> (technet.oracle.com) but to no avail...any suggestions, thank you
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I downloaded 9.2.0 for Linux from otn just a few weeks ago. I
installs without a hitch on Mandrake 9.0. I am not sure why
you can't download, it should work. What are the symptoms of the
failure at download?
I also installed 8.1.6 on Mandrake 8.2, but that was a year or
so back.
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