Perl > connecting to databases

Elijah · 06-15-2004, 08:39 PM

I'm in a local machine that needs to fetch info from our testserver database, but after trying out the tutorial: (using postgres)

http://manual.intl.indoglobal.com/pgsql_connect.html

it gave me a "Can't locate DBI.pm in @INC.... " error.

I did a little searching and found out that I need DBI and the postgres driver. I tried working the commands 'ppm' and 'perl -MCPAN -e 'install DBI'', no go....
ppm command not found. And the second command times out trying to connect... =(

is there any other way to connect to the postgres db from the testserver w/o using DBI??

Elijah · 06-15-2004, 08:52 PM

whoa, it finally connected... (perl -MCPAN -e 'install DBI') but still gave me an error

Quote:

Failed 10/38 test scripts, 73.68% okay. 0/947 subtests failed, 100.00% okay.
make: *** [test_dynamic] Error 29
/usr/bin/make test -- NOT OK
Running make install
make test had returned bad status, won't install without force

Elijah · 06-17-2004, 10:10 PM

anyone???

nyk · 06-18-2004, 04:17 AM

Try to compile DBI from source, this usually works better for perl modules that CPAN.

Elijah · 06-18-2004, 08:47 AM

For the last few hours I was somehow able to install DBI and DBD::Pg, one of the tarballs & rpm's I've downloaded must've done it. Thanks for the reply