> > Hi > I am trying to install DBI on AIX 5. Perl is working great. I also had no problem installing PERL on my own windows laptop. > I have found the DBI-1.41.tar.gz file and have successfully downloaded it. (I need to download it to windows and then transfer the file to unix because of network restrictions.) I believe that I need to run gzip and then tar open the file. When trying to run gzip, I am getting an error message - invalid compressed data-crc error. > > >From reading the documentation, it appears that I can also run CPAN but that hasn't been used before. > > Installing PERL was too easy. What am I missing.
Perl or perl never PERL. An "invalid compressed data-crc error" is either a problem with the downloaded file or with your gunzip. When you copied from windows to AIX did you do so in a binary fashion? As for CPAN it should help with all of this, but is difficult to setup without a direct or proxied network connection. Aka it is harder to copy the files into the right places to avoid the need for a network connection than just installing the modules manually. I would double check your download, your copy, and your gunzip before doing anything further. I am assuming that you are running gunzip instead of gzip, one is for compressing the other for inflating, you need the latter. After decompressing and untarring there should be a README or INSTALL file to help with further installation, but the standard Perl module installation routine should work with DBI. perldoc perlmodinstall Come back if you are still stuck... http://danconia.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
