I received a number of replies privately and publicly, and my thanks and appreciation to all who took the time to respond.
By installing the Oracle 8i Linux client with the "Programmer" option selected, I was able to acquire all of the necessary libraries for compiling DBD::Oracle. After installation, minor changed needed to be made to TNSNAMES.ORA, mostly due to my ignorance of Oracle's resolution process, but now it works perfectly. In response to the concern re: Debian being an unsupported distribution, of that I was aware. The only necessary tweaking which resulted from my configuration was the need to install X11, which allowed me to use the not-quite-Universal Installer, which provided access to everything else I needed. Also, since I am not using Oracle Names for host resolution nor is local DNS available, I updated /etc/hosts so that the WinNT machine could be resolved properly. Thanks again, everybody! Collaboration such as this is a very helpful resource. Cheers, Garrett Ellis -----Original Message----- From: Stephen Clouse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 21, 2002 4:09 PM To: Garrett Ellis Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Using Linux and Perl to Access Oracle on NT -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 02:49:18PM -0700, Garrett Ellis wrote: > My big question is, am I pursuing the proper course of action if I am to use > Perl from Linux to access Oracle on NT? Or is there something else I could > do to accomplish this? No, you need the native Linux binaries. Download the server package from Technet or order a CD pack from Oracle if you have a slow connection (the download is roughly 1GB). Then install the client and OCI components. That should be everything you need to build DBD::Oracle. Also be warned -- Debian is not officially supported by Oracle, so some tweaking may be necessary to get things completely working. - -- Stephen Clouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Senior Programmer, IQ Coordinator Project Lead The IQ Group, Inc. <http://www.theiqgroup.com/> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9E7IGA4aoazQ9p2cRAs4sAJ46YT1Asx+CZnPhgBY/BuJf6b0DRwCg7xHk TJjCyDLCYoBD3H5wR1SS+Yk= =OTvv -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----