I thought about the binary vs. alpha option. Which is correct? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wiggins d Anconia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Adam Jacobson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 5:35 PM Subject: Re: Installing DBI
> > > > 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>
