RE: [cobalt-users] Ikon Board 3.10 - DBI

["Jolley, Carl" <Carl.Jolley@xxxxxxx>]

-----Original Message-----
From: Douglas Spooner [mailto:webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 7:01 AM
To: 'cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: [cobalt-users] Ikon Board 3.10 - DBI


Hi

I have a RaQ3i and decided today to install ikon board 3.10 (
www.ikonboard.com ) on my RaQ. After successfulling uploading, chmodding
etc, I attmped to run its installer.cgi from the web, this guides your
through seting up the board which is easy enough. I have opted for the DBI
version of the board in the setup rather than the MySQL version as my raq 3
does not have this installed.

But I seem to get this error when it attemps to generate the the forum

Can't locate DBI.pm in @INC (@INC contains: ./ ./Sources ./install_modules
/usr/lib/perl5/5.00503/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.00503
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005 .)
at (eval 7) line 3. 
For help, please send mail to the webmaster (site35), giving this error
message and the time and date of the error. Expires: Mon, 26 Jul 1997
05:00:00 GMT Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 10:34:59 GMT Content-Type: text/html 

I know this is something to do with a module but I am not sure how to
re-install it I have looked on their support boards and they suggest doing
this

ppm install DB_file

I also tried this

perl -MCPAN -e "install DBI::DBI"

It then brings up a config screen that says are you ready for manual config?
Y/N? At this point I hit ctr+c as I dont know what I'm doing and dont want
to damage anything.

Found a few articles on the cobalt list but they are rather breif on what
exactly to do.

Any pointers would be great
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Instead of doing an "install DBI::DBI" command with
PPM try doing just a "install DBI".

The reason why is that when I use PPM and do a
"search dbi" command the response is:

DBI     [1.14] Database independent interface for Perl

I.E. there doesn't appear to be a DBI::DBI module. However
even if you already have DBI.pm installed or if you do the
command I recommended above to install it, you may also need a
separate DMB module if the database you are trying to access
is not one of the ones built-in to the DBI module. For example
you may also need to do a "install db_file". Of course you can
use the PPM query command to tell you if either of these modules
is already installed. Based on the error message you got it certainly
appears that dbi is not installed.  Even if you just go ahead and
do the two install commands there should be any problem as PPM will
tell you if any module you are trying to install is already installed.
If you do any of these installs be sure to do the dbi first.