If you plan to run under WinNT, you should probably be using ActiveState
Perl and their PPM to install DBI and DBD::Oracle. You will still need
Oracle's SQL*Net client to actually connect to an Oracle database though and
Oracle is the only source for that.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Vittorio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "dbi-users" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 16:53
Subject: Re: Oracle, perl & DBI under debian
> Thanks Ilya but to put it simpler:
>
> Where can I find those Oracle client libs?
>
> Sterin, Ilya [02/07/01 09:34 -0600]:
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Vittorio
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: 07/02/2001 11:28 AM
> > Subject: Re: Oracle, perl & DBI under debian
> >
> > Victor [02/07/01 17:01 +0000]:
> > > Willing to use my laptop as a client of an oracle DB on an NT server
> > > and network, to start with I've just begun to read the book by
> > > Alligator Descartes and Tim Bunce "Programming the Perl DBI".
> > >
> > > Being at my very first steps on this field there's something somewhat
> > > obscure to me and I wonder if someone could answer this easy question
> > > of mine:
> > >
> > > To use perl and DBI:oracle do I need to install
> > >
> > > perl and the DBI stuff for oracle from the DBI site only
> >
> >
> > If you read the book, it actually explains this pretty good IMO. You
need
> > perl (of course :-) as well as DBI and DBD::Oracle from www.cpan.org
> >
> >
> > >
> > > OR
> > >
> > > perl, the DBI stuff for oracle and A SERVER (PROPRIETARY) CLIENT FOR
> > > ORACLE?
> >
> > You must have the Oracle client libs installed before you can compile
> > DBD::Oracle.
