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Re: New to the whole BINARIES-thingy

by MZSanford (Curate)
on Feb 07, 2002 at 08:49 UTC ( #143817=note: print w/ replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to New to the whole BINARIES-thingy

If you are on windows, and are using ActiveState perl, and have ppm, then this is much easier. you simply use the command : 

C:\WINDOWS>ppm install DBD::MySql

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Now, DBD::MySql does require DBI, so you may also have to do ppm install DBI first. I did this on my pc, with no prior mysql installs, and it looked like this : 
C:\WINDOWS>ppm install DBD::MySql
Installing package 'DBD-MySql'...
Bytes transferred: 126147
Installing C:\Perl\site\lib\auto\DBD\mysql\mysql.bs
Installing C:\Perl\site\lib\auto\DBD\mysql\mysql.dll
Installing C:\Perl\site\lib\auto\DBD\mysql\mysql.exp
Installing C:\Perl\site\lib\auto\DBD\mysql\mysql.lib
Installing C:\Perl\html\site\lib\Mysql.html
Installing C:\Perl\html\site\lib\Bundle\DBD\mysql.html
Installing C:\Perl\html\site\lib\DBD\mysql.html
Installing C:\Perl\site\lib\Mysql.pm
Installing C:\Perl\site\lib\Mysql\Statement.pm
Installing C:\Perl\site\lib\DBD\mysql.pm
Installing C:\Perl\site\lib\Bundle\DBD\mysql.pm
Installing C:\Perl\bin\dbimon
Installing C:\Perl\bin\dbimon.bat
Writing C:\Perl\site\lib\auto\DBD\Mysql\.packlist
C:\WINDOWS>


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And, Ta-Da, from the next snippet you can see the library loads fine : 
C:\WINDOWS>perl -MDBD::MySql -e 1

C:\WINDOWS>

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Re: Re: New to the whole BINARIES-thingy
by S_Shrum (Pilgrim) on Feb 07, 2002 at 08:59 UTC

    That's what I thought...but here's what I get: 

    PPM - Programmer's Package Manager version 3.0 beta 2.
Copyright (c) 2001 ActiveState SRL. All Rights Reserved.

Entering interactive shell. Using Term::ReadLine::Stub as readline lib
+rary.

Profile tracking is not enabled. If you save and restore profiles manu
+ally,
your profile may be out of sync with your computer. See 'help profile'
+ for
more information.

Type 'help' to get started.

ppm> install DBD::MySql
Error: Package 'DBD::MySql' not found. Please 'search' for it first.
ppm>

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    Any ideas?

    ======================
    Sean Shrum
    http://www.shrum.net

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[d/l]

      Perhaps you are behind a firewall.

      If so, have a look here for information about how to work with that.

      --
      John.

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[d/l]

        I just installed other modules with the PPM (eg: dbd::db2) so that's not it.

        ======================
        Sean Shrum
        http://www.shrum.net

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      The module name is DBD::mysql, lowercase 'mysql'.

      After Compline,
      Zaxo

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        Wish that was the case. I have installed various other modules today with various case (mostly all lowercase) and haven't seen a problem there.

        After doing a search, it appears that the dbd::mysql module isn't even listed. As for not being able to install modules, I provide the following account that shows that I can. 

        PPM - Programmer's Package Manager version 3.0 beta 2.
Copyright (c) 2001 ActiveState SRL. All Rights Reserved.

Entering interactive shell. Using Term::ReadLine::Stub as readline lib
+rary.

Profile tracking is not enabled. If you save and restore profiles manu
+ally,
your profile may be out of sync with your computer. See 'help profile'
+ for
more information.

Type 'help' to get started.

ppm> install DBD::Mysql
Error: Package 'DBD::Mysql' not found. Please 'search' for it first.
ppm> install DBD::mysql
Error: Package 'DBD::mysql' not found. Please 'search' for it first.
ppm> install DBD::MYSQL
Error: Package 'DBD::MYSQL' not found. Please 'search' for it first.
ppm> search dbd
Searching in repository 2 (ActiveState Package Repository)
    1. DBD-CSV      [0.1025] DBI driver for CSV files
    2. DBD-DB2      [0.74]   DataBase Driver for DB2 UDB
    3. DBD-JDBC     [0.63]   JDBC proxy driver for the DBI module
    4. DBD-ODBC     [0.28]   ODBC Driver for DBI
    5. DBD-Oracle   [1.06]   Oracle database driver for the DBI module
    6. DBD-Ovrimos  [0.12]   DBI Driver for Ovrimos (formerly Altera S
+QL
                             Server)
    7. DBD-pNET     [0.1003] Perl network database driver for the DBI 
+module
    8. DBD-RAM      [0.072]  a DBI driver for files and data structure
+s
    9. DBD-Recall   [1.8]    Database fault tolerance through replicat
+ion.
   10. DBD-Sprite   [0.13]   Modified version of Sprite to manipulate 
+text
                             delimited
   11. DBD-SQLrelay [0.1]    perl DBI driver for SQL Relay
   12. DBD-Sybase   [0.91]   Sybase database driver for the DBI module
   13. DBD-XBase    [0.161]  Perl module for reading and writing the d
+bf
                             files
   14. DBI          [1.14]   Database independent interface for Perl
   15. DBIx-AnyDBD  [1.98]   DBD independant class
ppm> install dbd::db2
====================
Install 'DBD-DB2' version 0.75 in ActivePerl 630.
====================
Downloaded 65356 bytes.
Extracting package. This may take a few seconds.
Extracting 34/34: blib/lib/DBD/DB2.pod
Installing C:\Perl\site\lib\auto\DBD\DB2\DB2.bs
Installing C:\Perl\site\lib\auto\DBD\DB2\DB2.dll
Installing C:\Perl\site\lib\auto\DBD\DB2\DB2.exp
Installing C:\Perl\site\lib\auto\DBD\DB2\DB2.lib
Installing C:\Perl\site\lib\auto\DBD\DB2\Constants\Constants.bs
Installing C:\Perl\site\lib\auto\DBD\DB2\Constants\Constants.dll
Installing C:\Perl\site\lib\auto\DBD\DB2\Constants\Constants.exp
Installing C:\Perl\site\lib\auto\DBD\DB2\Constants\Constants.lib
Installing C:\Perl\site\lib\DBD\DB2.pm
Installing C:\Perl\site\lib\DBD\DB2.pod
Installing C:\Perl\site\lib\DBD\DB2\Constants.pm
Installing C:\Perl\site\lib\Bundle\DBD\DB2.pm
Installing C:\Perl\site\lib\auto\DBD\DB2\Constants\autosplit.ix
Writing C:\Perl\site\lib\auto\DBD\DB2\.packlist
ppm> install dbd::mysql
Error: Package 'dbd::mysql' not found. Please 'search' for it first.
ppm>

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        Any other ideas? Where can I point the PPM (which (re)suppository) to to get the DBD::Mysql? ;-p

        ======================
        Sean Shrum
        http://www.shrum.net

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[d/l]

      Okay. My second guess. ;-)

      You should try install DBD-MySql, with - instead of ::. It may need to be lowercase as well.

      --
      John.

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        No go. After doing a search for 'DBD' I do not see the module listed. I know that it is out there (somewhere; see 1st reply text for other user's DBD::MySql install log).

        What does one do in a situation like this?

        Thanks for all the help so far.

        ======================
        Sean Shrum
        http://www.shrum.net

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      Try install DBD-mysql

      I believe that the double colon is changed for a dash to allow the package to be a valid filespec under win32 etc.

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