As Ronald have mentioned at the end of the thread, it might just be a simple
mistake of you not using the correct perl installation if you have more than
one. DBD::mysql might be installed under a different perl insallation which
is not the default.
Ilya
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brent Palmer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 11:31 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: more problems w/ DBD::mysql
>
>
> I'm having a similar problem as Stefan. Here is the error message:
>
> Software error:
> install_driver(mysql) failed: [Thu Jun 28 22:42:15 2001] c4.cgi: Can't
> locate DBD/mysql.pm in @INC (@INC contains:
> /usr/lib/perl5/5.00503/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.00503
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i386-linux
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005 .)
> at (eval 10) line 3. Perhaps the DBD::mysql perl module hasn't been fully
> installed, or perhaps the capitalisation of 'mysql' isn't right. Available
> drivers: ADO, ExampleP, Multiplex, Proxy. at c4.cgi line 21
>
> Here is my version:
>
> #open connection to Access database
> $dbName = '********';
> $dbhost = 'localhost';
> $dbUserName = '*********';
> $dbPassword = '*******';
>
> $data_source = 'DBI:mysql:$dbName:$dbhost';
>
> $dbh = DBI->connect($data_source , $dbUserName, $dbPassword);
>
> I also tried Hardy's version:
>
> $dsn = "DBI:mysql:database=$database;host=$hostname;
>
> $dbh = DBI->connect($dsn, $user, $password);
>
> I also tried this which I got from somewhere:
>
> $drh = DBI->install_driver( 'mysql' );
>
> $dbh = $drh->connect($dbUserName, $dbPassword);
>
> I ran the command from Stefan's message:
>
> perl -MDBI -e 'print join("\n",DBI->available_drivers) . "\n";'
>
> at the telnet command line and got the same list of drivers as
> listed in the
> error mssge above. I've asked the sysadmin to check the
> installation of the
> DBI modules and he says he reinstalled them. Can I be reasonably sure
> however that the driver isn't installed correctly from what I know?
>
> Thank You
> Brent
>
>
>
