Want a complete&latest perl package

ZAMO · 01-29-2009, 05:06 AM

Hi all,

I have a CentOS server with the following details.

Code:

$ uname -a
Linux myserver 2.6.9-67.ELsmp #1 SMP Fri Nov 16 12:49:06 EST 2007 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
$ cat /etc/redhat-release 
CentOS release 4.6 (Final)
$ rpm -qa|grep perl
perl-Filter-1.30-6
perl-libxml-perl-0.07-30
perl-Compress-Zlib-1.42-1.el4
perl-XML-SAX-0.12-7
perl-DBI-1.40-8
perl-Parse-Yapp-1.05-32
perl-IO-Zlib-1.04-4.2.el4
perl-Convert-ASN1-0.18-3
perl-XML-LibXML-Common-0.13-7
perl-URI-1.30-4
mod_perl-1.99_16-4.5
perl-DateManip-5.42a-3
perl-libwww-perl-5.79-5
perl-XML-Encoding-1.01-26
perl-Digest-HMAC-1.01-13
perl-Time-HiRes-1.55-3
perl-XML-NamespaceSupport-1.08-6
perl-XML-Twig-3.13-6
perl-XML-LibXML-1.58-1
perl-HTML-Tagset-3.03-30
perl-XML-Parser-2.34-5
perl-libxml-enno-1.02-31
perl-Digest-SHA1-2.07-5
perl-Net-DNS-0.48-2.el4
perl-XML-Grove-0.46alpha-27
perl-HTML-Parser-3.35-6
perl-Archive-Tar-1.30-1.el4
perl-Crypt-SSLeay-0.51-5
perl-5.8.5-36.el4_5.2
newt-perl-1.08-7
perl-XML-Dumper-0.71-2
perl-LDAP-0.31-5

I have issues with oracle DBD module

Code:

perl test.pl
install_driver(oracle) failed: Can't locate DBD/oracle.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib64/perl5/5.8.5/x86_64-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5 /usr/lib64/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/x86_64-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib64/perl5/site_perl/5.8.4/x86_64-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib64/perl5/site_perl/5.8.3/x86_64-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib64/perl5/site_perl/5.8.2/x86_64-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib64/perl5/site_perl/5.8.1/x86_64-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib64/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/x86_64-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.4 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.3 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.2 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.1 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5/x86_64-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.4/x86_64-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.3/x86_64-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.2/x86_64-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.1/x86_64-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/x86_64-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.4 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.3 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.2 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.1 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl .) at (eval 1) line 3.
Perhaps the DBD::oracle perl module hasn't been fully installed,
or perhaps the capitalisation of 'oracle' isn't right.
Available drivers: ExampleP, Proxy, Sponge.
 at test.pl line 2

The perl am using is the one available with the OS itself.

Is there any Package of perl available , which I can install and update the current one along with all the available modules.

Am not familiar with perl and its modules .

Please Advise .
Thanks

chrism01 · 01-29-2009, 05:27 AM

Login at the cmd line as root and try

perl -e shell -MCPAN
cpan> install DBD::Oracle

FYI Perl is case sensitive

Quote:

or perhaps the capitalisation of 'oracle' isn't right.

To check/find modules, go to search.cpan.org

BTW, CENTOS (== RHEL) 4.6 is pretty old, they're on 5.3 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux

Su-Shee · 01-29-2009, 05:32 AM

The module is found here: http://search.cpan.org/search?module=DBD::Oracle

And the syntax would be "use DBD::Oracle;" (capital O)

and you install Perl module ideally from the CPAN shell:

perl -MCPAN -e shell

That show an interactive command prompt. Issue "install DBD::Oracle" and say "y" everywhere.

Don't forget to set ORACLE_HOME correctly or the module will fail.

ZAMO · 01-30-2009, 04:04 AM

Thank you Su-shee and chrism.

My server is not allowed to connect to Internet directly. I have downloaded the DBD-Oracle-1.22.tar.gz thro other way. Where can I extract this directory?

Code:

Don't forget to set ORACLE_HOME correctly or the module will fail.

Is it Ok, If I extract the DBD-Oracle-1.22.tar.gz in a directory and add that path to the ORACLE_HOME in .bash_profile

knudfl · 01-30-2009, 01:36 PM

.... No, that won't do ...
You will have to build it, start reading "README"

....

'cd DBD-Oracle-1.16/'
'perl Makefile.PL'
'make' ... 'make test'
and finally when all tests have passed :
'su' ... 'make install'

....

ZAMO · 01-30-2009, 11:17 PM

Thanks a Lot for knudfl and all others here.

I have configured the module and its working fine. The thing here is I learnt how to configure modules for Perl , not only DBD::Oracle, others also.

Cheers