Re: [cobalt-users] MySQL and DBI

["alan@" <alan@xxxxxxxxx>]

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Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 2:42 PM
Subject: RE: [cobalt-users] MySQL and DBI


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gerald Waugh
> Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] MySQL and DBI
>
>
> On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Paul-Hus Diane wrote:
> > Looking on my RAQ4 Cobalt I see those packages installed  for
> MySQL-3.22.32
> >
> >
> > I am missing the MySQL-devel-3.22.32-1.i386.rpm The installation was
done
> > through the GUI Interface after downloading the MySql from pkgmaster
about
> a
> > year ago.
> >
> > Now one of my customer would like to use perl-DBI  and it is not
working.
> > I guess I first need the MySQL-devel-3.22.32-1.i386.rpm
> >
> > I saw a few of them on the Internet but which one will worked fine on
> Cobalt
> > RAQ4R .
> >
> > Can someone send me one test on Cobalt.
> >
> > To install it , should I just move the package in /home/packages and use
> > rpm -i MySQL-devel-3.22.32-1.i386.rpm
> >
> > Once I have the devel installed  do I need special download for
> > DBI/DBI,DATA-ShowTable,Msql-Mysql .
> >
> > Do I need to have them as RPM files ?
>
> AFAIK you need to install the perl dbi module from cpan
>
> Gerald
> _____________________________________
>
>
> [root /root]# rpm -qa | grep perl
> openssl-perl-0.9.6b-8
> groff-perl-1.15-8
> perl-Text-Iconv-1.2-1
> libwww-perl-5.43-1
> perl-5.00503-2
> perl-Msql-Mysql-modules-1.2214-1
> postgresql-perl-7.0.2-2C1
> perl-MD5-1.7-6
> perl-quota-1.2.3-1C1
> perl-XML-Parser-2.26-2
> perl-Devel-Symdump-2.00-2
> perl-DBI-1.14-1
> apache-mod_perl-1.3.20-RaQ4_1C4stackguard
> [root /root]#
>
> You should not need anything, the DBI is already there.  It could be that
> the programmer
> doesn't know how to interface with it.  I took a vanilla cobalt, and had a
> whole mySQL site
> working with out any issues.
>
> If you search the archives, I put a sample config a while back, I am
trying
> to get into my
> demo box, but it is down right now.  Pretty simple though to work with.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Brian
>

Hi,
You can check out whats installed on your machine using perldiver.
Check it out here www.headru.sh/cgi-bin/perldiver.pl
download it here www.headru.sh/files/perldiver_1_1.zip

Alan