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On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 07:40:06 -0700 Mary Sweeney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for your reply. How do I find out whether I'm using > "ActiveState" perl or not? I just downloaded Perl off of the > website. I've heard others talk about what version of Perl they have > but I don't even know how to tell that! How does one find out what > version of Perl is running? Hopefully you know which website you downloaded your perl from. `perl -v` gives a short list of version information and `perl -V` gives a more detailed list including a lot of information about how it was built. In my Linux system, I see the following: $ perl -v This is perl, v5.8.0 built for i386-linux-thread-multi I am assuming you are running in MSWindows. The two most likely perls in that environment are ActiveState and Cygwin. ActiveState perl will have a "built for" string similar to "MSWin32-x86-multi-thread". It is normally installed from an *.msi file using Microsoft's installer. Cygwin perl will have something like "cygwin-multi-64int". It is normally installed from a *.tar.bz2 file using Cygwin's setup.exe. > What is PPM? PPM is the package manager provided by ActiveState for ActivePerl. It allows users without a C compiler to install Perl packages even if they have binary components. It is used in place of the more universal `perl Makefile.PL`, `make`, `make test`, and `make install` given in the module READMEs. See http://dev.isystek.com/dbi/fom-serve/cache/13.html . > I did try navigating CPAN and found the database interfaces link but > couldn't determine what, if anything, to download. I'm told that I > might have DBI already within Perl. Is that possible? You can check whether you have DBI and what version with: `perl -MDBI=99`. If you don't have DBI, perl will respond that it can't locate DBI.pm. If you do have DBI, perl will say the version is only 1.38 or whatever you have. > Sorry to be so green. I wish there were just a "step one; step two" > set of instructions for some of this. The first thing you have to decide is which database you are trying to connect to. If there isn't a DBD-xxx module with that database name, you probably need DBD-ODBC. In any case, you will need to install DBI first. The DBI-FAQ gives you some instructions and the READMEs that come with each module give more detailed instructions. -- Mac :}) ** I usually forward private questions to the appropriate mail list. ** Ask Smarter: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html Give a hobbit a fish and he eats fish for a day. Give a hobbit a ring and he eats fish for an age.
