Wow, I thought when I was explaining to people how to locally install, they knew that the PPD file contains the location information and must be edited to include the local drive info.
You can install DBD-Oracle and DBD-Oracle8 on your Win2K box, the only difference is that Oracle8 is compiled with OCI8 libs, other than that it had nothing to do with Multi Thread Enabled perl. Thanks for clarifying the rest though, some will find it usefull. Ilya -----Original Message----- From: Dale Cooper To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Sent: 11/29/01 10:21 AM Subject: DBI DBD and other PPMs for Windows 2000 I found the solution to my problem, see Thread DBI on Windows 2000 29th Nov 2001. Sadly the situation is probably a RTFM/P solution. But which manual/page do I read. As it stands the Active State binary distributions of Perl have a set of flavours, I needed "MSWin32-x86-multi-thread". Others may require the "MSWin32-x86-object" or other flavours. You can determine this from running the following: perl -v As such you have to go to the link 'http://www.activestate.com/PPMPackages/5.6/' for the PPM files. Here you download the DBI.ppd and relevant DBD file (for me it was DBD-Oracle8.pdd) because my Architecture is 'Multi Thread (Enabled)' I had to go into the directory below called 'http://www.activestate.com/PPMPackages/5.6/MSWin32-x86-multi-thread/' from here I down loaded the associated *tar.gz files. The *.ppd files look like XML ... so open them with an editor and edit the HREF field of the CODEBASE element to be the file name of the downloaded *tar.gz. E.g. I have downloaded the DBI.ppd and the DBI.tar.gz file to the same directory, don't bother extracting the DBI.tar.gz. I edited the DBI.ppd file to say <CODEBASE HREF="DBI.tar.gz" /> (NB you will only need the relevant IMPLEMENTATION element, delete the others). ** These edit were only required because I am behind a firewall and I was unable to connect directly to the activestate server via ppm. >From the command line I moved to the downlaod directory and ... C:\ ... > ppm install DBI.ppd This worked fine. The same principle was applied to the DBD-Oracle8.* files. I have had no problems since. Took me a few days to get here though. Thanks for the responses. I hope the above helps someone else in the future. Dale.
