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Installing Perl (v5.8.8) module for connecting to MySQL

I want to connect to MySQL Database installed on RHEL 5 using perl v 5.8.8.
The available DBD perl drivers installed on my machine are:

DBM, ExampleP, File, Pg, Proxy, Sponge

I downloaded DBD-mysql-2.1012 and tried installing DBD again but got the following error:

Can't exec "mysql_config": No such file or directory at Makefile.PL line 167.
readline() on closed filehandle PIPE at Makefile.PL line 169.

On searching I found that I need to install libz-devel prior to installing driver for MySQL for Perl.

How are you trying to install the perl module? Using "perl Makefile.PL, make, make install"?

You can use either rhel package manager:

Code:

yum install perl-DBD-mysql

or use the cpan interface to install DBD::mysql It will also install all dependencies (like yum). Take a look at this for more

Regards