Installing dbi perl

Once you download the ShowTable module file, you will need to extract it is compressed and compile it, as follows: Unpack the archive tar xvfz Data-ShowTable PL Make the installable files: make Test the new files: make test Install the modules and "showtable" program into the configured Perl library and binary directories.

Once all the above steps are run the ShowTable module is installed and you can delete the directory Data-ShowTable These instructions refer to downloading and installing the DBD module for MySQL, but you can install more than one of the modules to access different types of database software.

The same Perl commands wich work for one database type will work for the other types: the code is portable not only across platforms, but also across database software. Once all the above steps are run the DBI module is installed and you can delete the directory Msql-Mysql-modules Lets see some basic concepts and a series of examples to illustrate them.

See also How to install dmake with perl? But how do I chance that? I thought the installer would figure that out by itself? All this installation stuff is driving me crazy.

Now the same issue on my PC IIRC, cpan dmake will install it. Didn't it used to do that automatically??? They were, but switched to ActivePerl. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes.

And changed! Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Just follow the steps. That should do the trick for the DBI. The rest is manual. I chose to download the RPMs and convert them to. Oracle also provides.

Oracle Instant Client Download Site. Accept the license agreement by clicking the Accept radio button. Since the i and amd64 files have different names, check the bold words in the file names to know which ones to download the names below are for the i platform.

Now is the time to install alien, which is an application that converts rpm files into. Instant Client also requires libaio. Both can be installed through the Synaptic Package Manager. Just open it, look for alien, mark it for install and do the same for libaio and libaio-dev. First step to install Oracle Instant Client from rpm files is to convert them into.

Do that with alien by running the following command from a command line in the directory where you downloaded your RPMs :. It takes a little while to run, so be patient. It returns one row from the result which can be assigned to variables. When used in a while loop, we can fetch and display all the rows in the database using the fetchrow method.

This is done by the use of disconnect function. Doing so allows the Perl script to properly terminate the connection. Not disconnecting from the database will not generate any errors. It is generally a good practice to do so.

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