SLRe: No database drivers available

[Omar B. <ob...@ya...>]

Thanks Gord,
I had the same idea  but I have DBI installed ( I am pretty sure of that)=20
and I will try to check the DBD
Omar
At 06:34 =D5 24/03/02 -0700, gha...@fr... wrote:

>On Sun, 24 Mar 2002, Omar Baheyeldin wrote:
>
> > Thanks David again
> > But when I tried admin.pl , I had the error No
> > database drivers available ,
>            ^^^^^^^
> >  though I have the following OK
> > 1-postgres installed
> > (ps aux |grep postgre)
> > 2- It is accepting tcp/ip connection
> > ( psql -h 127.0.0.1 -d template1 ) is working fine
> > 3- Apache configured to run pl extensions ,and the
> > directory root to sql-ledger is OK
> > 4- Permiissions for the users and template are set for
> > nobody
> >
> > I cannot find where the problem is
>
>I've stared at similar problems before.  You are not
>seeing the word "drivers".  Yes, you have postgres
>installed and it is accepting connections.  What you
>are missing is one or more of the perl modules that
>allow perl to communicate with a PostgreSQL database.
>Those are the drivers in question.  DBD::PG is probably
>one of them (that is the CPAN name for it).  If you
>are running RedHat, Mandrake, Debian, ...; you need
>to download another module (which may pull along a few
>other modules vis dependencies) which contains this
>module.  Debian always renames perl modules, as they
>don't follow Debian standards.  Makes it hard to find
>the things some times.  Alternatively, you can download
>them from CPAN and install them "locally" (into /usr/local).
>
>That should get you started.
>
>Gord
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