Re: Non-interactive install and DBD::Oracle

From: Mark Bole <makbo_at_pacbell.net>
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 01:05:25 GMT
Message-ID: <pN26d.3716$nj.3068@newssvr13.news.prodigy.com>

Bricklen wrote:
> JGH wrote:
>

>>
>> Yes, it says that the components you need to install vary depending on 
>> the version of Oracle you are using. But it doesn't say exactly which 
>> components to install and even if it did, I'm not sure it would help 
>> me because I have to do a non-interactive install.
>> I guess I didn't follow the instructions exactly because it says if 
>> you can't figure out which components to install, ask some place that 
>> meant nothing to me. So I asked here instead.
>>

>
> Have you installed DBI? If necessary, try copying the pro*c and rdbms
> directories directly to your $ORACLE_HOME. You don't need all of the
> files, but I'm not sure which ones you need specifically. Been a while
> since I worked with configuring DBD and DBI, so I'm afraid that I can't
> be much more specific than that.

If you find yourself trying to identify individual Oracle components to install in order to get Perl DBD::Oracle to work, there is a good chance something much more simple is wrong, such as an environment variable or a missing CPAN (Comprehensive Perl Archive Network) module.

As usual, platform and other version info would help, as would the exact error message. On most Unix platforms (Linux being a flavor of Unix) you have to compile the DBI and DBD::Oracle modules -- this is almost automatic once you get CPAN up and running (which itself is almost automatic, after you consult the FAQ). Is the Perl error from the compile stage or the test stage?

On Windows, I'm pretty sure you can just download a precompiled set of modules from ActiveState (but it's been a while since I've done it).

In both cases, any kind of normal Oracle RDBMS install (server, not client) should suffice, in my experience.

--Mark Bole Received on Mon Sep 27 2004 - 20:05:25 CDT