in reply to Re^4: What are DBD::Oracle's dependencies (on Linux)?
in thread What are DBD::Oracle's dependencies (on Linux)?
I am a junior Oracle DBA and a Perl developer who's been developing against Oracle databases for five years. I am telling you exactly what you need:
- You need DBD::Oracle installed on the machine you want to use to talk to an Oracle database.
- To install DBD::Oracle, you need the client libraries that come with the Oracle database. (Basically, you need sqlplus installed, plus a few other things.)
- To install those libraries, you need the Oracle installer from www.oracle.com, just like I described.
- Then, you point the ORACLE_HOME environment variable to wherever you installed Oracle. This is usually /opt/oracle, but not always.
These items are not negotiable. They are at a minimum what is needed to install DBD::Oracle. Period. End of story. ikegami was wrong in what he said in his reply.
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