Re: DBI

[Thomas G. <to...@ad...>]

On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, Richard Lyons wrote:

> Can anyone save me a lot of earching and learning and tell me:
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> What are DBI and DBD?
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> "Why do I get DBI not installed" instead of sql-ledger/admin? =20
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> I've just installed sql-ledger on an RH7.1 workstation.  I have=20
> searched Redhat's rpms for DBI to no avail.  Rpmfind has some listed,=20
> but not RedHat -- and I've no idea if that is the right thing to do, as=
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> I simply don't know what I'm doing here.
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> --
> richard

Richard, check out the FAQ and email archive(s)...DBI is Database Interface
a perl module and after you install it you need DBD-Pg, which is a=20
'database driver' for P(ost)g(res)...you can get these at www.cpan.org
You'll want to make sure you have perl installed...

good luck

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