Re: DBI

[John B. <Jo...@be...>]

You probably don't want to use the cpan.pm module; the packages are
available from Red Hat in /pub/redhat/linux/7.1/en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS
on ftp.redhat.com.   Just get perl-DB*.

Using the cpan.pm module causes (in some cases) base perl to be upgraded
to the latest available, currently 5.6.1.  Upgrading to 5.6.1 causes
many things in Red Hat Linux to break - thinks like autoconf, libtool,
automake, and printing.  If you need a module upgraded that's not
provided by Red Hat, use the /usr/lib/rpm/cpanflute script (provided in
the rpm-build package) to create an RPM from a CPAN tarball; much better
that way.

On Wed, 02 Jan 2002, gha...@fr... wrote:

> 
> On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, Richard Lyons wrote:
> 
> > Can anyone save me a lot of earching and learning and tell me:
> 
> Sure.
> 
> > What are DBI and DBD?
> 
> DBI and DBD are (families of) Perl modules.  DBI is a fairly
> high level of abstration for dealing with DataBase Interfaces
> (hence the name DBI).  DBD modules are the DataBase Drivers
> used by the DBI to talk to the actual database.  You can get
> the DBI module, and the particular DBD (in this case, it's
> PG for PostgreSQL) from some place called CPAN (Comprehensive
> Perl Archive Network) at http://www.cpan.org/  I am a Debian
> user, so I don't know how much of CPAN is available from Redhat.
> Certainly a good chunk of CPAN is available using apt-get from
> Debian (but they always change the names of the modules).  If
> DBI and DBD::Pg are not available from Redhat, hopefully they
> do have cpan.pm available, which is a relatively painless
> way of downloading, compiling, testing and installing perl
> modules from CPAN.
> 
> Gord
> 

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