Re: Upgraded to perl v5.6.1 => result: Error! No database drivers available

[Herb R. <he...@bu...>]

On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Oscar Buijten wrote:

> Mmmmm......
>
> perl testdbi.pl (yourscript) says:
>
> install_driver(Pg) failed: Can't locate DBD/Pg.pm in @INC (@INC
> contains: /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.1/i686-linux
> /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.1
> /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/i686-linux
> /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl .)
> at (eval 1) line 3.
> Perhaps the DBD::Pg perl module hasn't been fully installed,
> or perhaps the capitalisation of 'Pg' isn't right.
> Available drivers: ExampleP, Proxy.
>   at testdbi.pl line 3
>
>
> But:
>
> locate Pg.pm says:
>
> /home/oscar/tmp/Pg.pm
> /root/.cpan/build/DBD-Pg-1.01/Pg.pm
> /root/.cpan/build/DBD-Pg-1.01/blib/lib/DBD/Pg.pm
> /root/.cpan/build/pgsql_perl5-1.9.0/Pg.pm
> /root/.cpan/build/pgsql_perl5-1.9.0/blib/lib/Pg.pm
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/i386-linux/DBD/Pg.pm
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/i386-linux/Pg.pm
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/i386-linux/DBD-Pg-0.95/Pg.pm
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/i386-linux/DBD-Pg-0.95/blib/lib/DBD/Pg.pm
> /usr/include/pgsql/Pg.pm


Here is a down and dirty hack that might help:

ln -s /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/i386-linux/ /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/i686-linux/


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Herb Richter,
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