How do I install DBD::Oracle

[nguye103]

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[jZed]

There may be several files called Oracle.pm in different distributions. If what you want to accomplish is to access an Oracle database from perl, you'll need DBI and DBD::Oracle. The latter does come with a file Oracle.pm.

[kutsu]

Yes: there are many ways to install modules but the easiest is proably "perl -MCPAN -e 'shell'" and then typing "install DBD::Oracle" at the cpan prompt.

More on installing modules can be found in tachyon's Tutorial: A Guide to Installing Modules

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[iburrell]

Getting DBD::Oracle is easy. It is available from CPAN. Building it is a little complicated because it is a binary module. Getting the headers and libraries required to compile it is a challenge. You effectively need to install Oracle database server, or at least the headers and libraries out of the database server.