On Thu, 21 Aug 2003, Colin Magee wrote: > As a Perl beginner who has realised I need to set up a database, I have to > add that I immediately went for MySQL due to all the attention it seems to > have, and bought a few books to get me started. The whole thing - using > installing etc etc looks hellish complicated AND I haven't even been able to > install it.
What Linux distro are you running? Pretty much all of them offer binary packages of MySQL so you should be able to use rpm or apt-get to install it. > All I can see is where the files are installed in my copy of > Linux. So it looks as if you already have to know what you're doing in > order to use it which is useless for a beginner and teh antithesis it seems > to me of what Perl is all about - because you don't already have to know > what you're doing to get started/ use it. I disagree. Installing MySQL is very simple. Using it with perl is as simple as: perldoc DBI read and learn. The same is true for PostgreSQL. Jason Clifford -- UKFSN.ORG Finance Free Software while you surf the 'net http://www.ukfsn.org/ ADSL Broadband available now
