Re: New to the whole BINARIES-thingy

If you are on windows, and are using ActiveState perl, and have ppm, then this is much easier. you simply use the command :

C:\WINDOWS>ppm install DBD::MySql
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Now, DBD::MySql does require DBI, so you may also have to do ppm install DBI first. I did this on my pc, with no prior mysql installs, and it looked like this :

C:\WINDOWS>ppm install DBD::MySql
Installing package 'DBD-MySql'...
Bytes transferred: 126147
Installing C:\Perl\site\lib\auto\DBD\mysql\mysql.bs
Installing C:\Perl\site\lib\auto\DBD\mysql\mysql.dll
Installing C:\Perl\site\lib\auto\DBD\mysql\mysql.exp
Installing C:\Perl\site\lib\auto\DBD\mysql\mysql.lib
Installing C:\Perl\html\site\lib\Mysql.html
Installing C:\Perl\html\site\lib\Bundle\DBD\mysql.html
Installing C:\Perl\html\site\lib\DBD\mysql.html
Installing C:\Perl\site\lib\Mysql.pm
Installing C:\Perl\site\lib\Mysql\Statement.pm
Installing C:\Perl\site\lib\DBD\mysql.pm
Installing C:\Perl\site\lib\Bundle\DBD\mysql.pm
Installing C:\Perl\bin\dbimon
Installing C:\Perl\bin\dbimon.bat
Writing C:\Perl\site\lib\auto\DBD\Mysql\.packlist
C:\WINDOWS>
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And, Ta-Da, from the next snippet you can see the library loads fine :

C:\WINDOWS>perl -MDBD::MySql -e 1

C:\WINDOWS>
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Re: Re: New to the whole BINARIES-thingy by S_Shrum (Pilgrim) on Feb 07, 2002 at 08:59 UTC
That's what I thought...but here's what I get: `PPM - Programmer's Package Manager version 3.0 beta 2. Copyright (c) 2001 ActiveState SRL. All Rights Reserved. Entering interactive shell. Using Term::ReadLine::Stub as readline lib +rary. Profile tracking is not enabled. If you save and restore profiles manu +ally, your profile may be out of sync with your computer. See 'help profile' + for more information. Type 'help' to get started. ppm> install DBD::MySql Error: Package 'DBD::MySql' not found. Please 'search' for it first. ppm>` [download] Any ideas? ====================== Sean Shrum http://www.shrum.net	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: Re: New to the whole BINARIES-thingy by Zaxo (Archbishop) on Feb 07, 2002 at 09:32 UTC
The module name is DBD::mysql, lowercase 'mysql'. After Compline, Zaxo	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: Re: New to the whole BINARIES-thingy by S_Shrum (Pilgrim) on Feb 07, 2002 at 10:02 UTC
Wish that was the case. I have installed various other modules today with various case (mostly all lowercase) and haven't seen a problem there. After doing a search, it appears that the dbd::mysql module isn't even listed. As for not being able to install modules, I provide the following account that shows that I can. PPM - Programmer's Package Manager version 3.0 beta 2. Copyright (c) 2001 ActiveState SRL. All Rights Reserved. Entering interactive shell. Using Term::ReadLine::Stub as readline lib +rary. Profile tracking is not enabled. If you save and restore profiles manu +ally, your profile may be out of sync with your computer. See 'help profile' + for more information. Type 'help' to get started. ppm> install DBD::Mysql Error: Package 'DBD::Mysql' not found. Please 'search' for it first. ppm> install DBD::mysql Error: Package 'DBD::mysql' not found. Please 'search' for it first. ppm> install DBD::MYSQL Error: Package 'DBD::MYSQL' not found. Please 'search' for it first. ppm> search dbd Searching in repository 2 (ActiveState Package Repository) 1. DBD-CSV [0.1025] DBI driver for CSV files 2. DBD-DB2 [0.74] DataBase Driver for DB2 UDB 3. DBD-JDBC [0.63] JDBC proxy driver for the DBI module 4. DBD-ODBC [0.28] ODBC Driver for DBI 5. DBD-Oracle [1.06] Oracle database driver for the DBI module 6. DBD-Ovrimos [0.12] DBI Driver for Ovrimos (formerly Altera S +QL Server) 7. DBD-pNET [0.1003] Perl network database driver for the DBI +module 8. DBD-RAM [0.072] a DBI driver for files and data structure +s 9. DBD-Recall [1.8] Database fault tolerance through replicat +ion. 10. DBD-Sprite [0.13] Modified version of Sprite to manipulate +text delimited 11. DBD-SQLrelay [0.1] perl DBI driver for SQL Relay 12. DBD-Sybase [0.91] Sybase database driver for the DBI module 13. DBD-XBase [0.161] Perl module for reading and writing the d +bf files 14. DBI [1.14] Database independent interface for Perl 15. DBIx-AnyDBD [1.98] DBD independant class ppm> install dbd::db2 ==================== Install 'DBD-DB2' version 0.75 in ActivePerl 630. ==================== Downloaded 65356 bytes. Extracting package. This may take a few seconds. Extracting 34/34: blib/lib/DBD/DB2.pod Installing C:\Perl\site\lib\auto\DBD\DB2\DB2.bs Installing C:\Perl\site\lib\auto\DBD\DB2\DB2.dll Installing C:\Perl\site\lib\auto\DBD\DB2\DB2.exp Installing C:\Perl\site\lib\auto\DBD\DB2\DB2.lib Installing C:\Perl\site\lib\auto\DBD\DB2\Constants\Constants.bs Installing C:\Perl\site\lib\auto\DBD\DB2\Constants\Constants.dll Installing C:\Perl\site\lib\auto\DBD\DB2\Constants\Constants.exp Installing C:\Perl\site\lib\auto\DBD\DB2\Constants\Constants.lib Installing C:\Perl\site\lib\DBD\DB2.pm Installing C:\Perl\site\lib\DBD\DB2.pod Installing C:\Perl\site\lib\DBD\DB2\Constants.pm Installing C:\Perl\site\lib\Bundle\DBD\DB2.pm Installing C:\Perl\site\lib\auto\DBD\DB2\Constants\autosplit.ix Writing C:\Perl\site\lib\auto\DBD\DB2\.packlist ppm> install dbd::mysql Error: Package 'dbd::mysql' not found. Please 'search' for it first. ppm> [download] Any other ideas? Where can I point the PPM (which (re)suppository) to to get the DBD::Mysql? ;-p ====================== Sean Shrum http://www.shrum.net	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: New to the whole BINARIES-thingy by MZSanford (Curate) on Feb 07, 2002 at 10:16 UTC
Re: Re: Re: New to the whole BINARIES-thingy by jmcnamara (Monsignor) on Feb 07, 2002 at 09:24 UTC
Perhaps you are behind a firewall. If so, have a look here for information about how to work with that. -- John.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: Re: Re: New to the whole BINARIES-thingy by S_Shrum (Pilgrim) on Feb 07, 2002 at 09:55 UTC
I just installed other modules with the PPM (eg: dbd::db2) so that's not it. ====================== Sean Shrum http://www.shrum.net	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: New to the whole BINARIES-thingy by jmcnamara (Monsignor) on Feb 07, 2002 at 10:08 UTC
Okay. My second guess. `;-)` You should try `install DBD-MySql`, with `-` instead of `::`. It may need to be lowercase as well. -- John.	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: Re: New to the whole BINARIES-thingy by S_Shrum (Pilgrim) on Feb 07, 2002 at 10:14 UTC
No go. After doing a search for 'DBD' I do not see the module listed. I know that it is out there (somewhere; see 1st reply text for other user's DBD::MySql install log). What does one do in a situation like this? Thanks for all the help so far. ====================== Sean Shrum http://www.shrum.net	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: New to the whole BINARIES-thingy by IvorW (Initiate) on Feb 07, 2002 at 11:29 UTC
Try `install DBD-mysql` I believe that the double colon is changed for a dash to allow the package to be a valid filespec under win32 etc.	[reply] [d/l]