Success! Thanks to help from you (and my DB admins getting a working scott/tiger account going) I have finally managed to install DBD::Oracle!
The following might be of interest to someone. Every test run throws up this warning: Warning: the following files are missing in your kit: META.yml Please inform the author. The absence of this file doesn't seem to have any serious effect, or any effect at all. Also, when running the tests I get this warning: t/26exe_array...........DBD::Oracle::st execute_array warning: ORA-24381: error(s) in array DML (DBD SUCCESS_WITH_INFO: error possibly near <*> indicator at char 66 in 'INSERT INTO dbd_ora__drop_me ( row_1, row_2, row_3) VALUES (:p1,:<*>p2,:p3)') [for Statement "INSERT INTO dbd_ora__drop_me ( row_1, row_2, row_3) VALUES (?,?,?)" with ParamValues: :p3=undef, :p1=undef, :p2=undef] at t/26exe_array.t line 77. Again, this doesn't seem to be particularly serious, and the install proceeds anyway. It skips quite a lot of tests "for various reasons". Regards, K. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Karl Auer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) +61-2-64957160 (h) http://www.biplane.com.au/~kauer/ +61-428-957160 (mob)