Massyn has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

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I'm trying to install DBD-Oracle via the PPM with ActiveState. I was able to do this a couple of months ago, now it seems that ActiveState has removed this module from their repository. Any comments?

Thanks!

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Re: DBD-Oracle missing via PPM?
by emcb (Beadle) on Jan 06, 2003 at 07:07 UTC

    Try another repository ;-)

    ActiveState still distribute DBD::Oracle and can be found here <http://www.activestate.com/packages/DBD-Oracle.ppd>. It has been a long time since I last used ActivePerl, but doesn't it come with a ppd utility? If so, you should be able to install the above ppd via that if you are still unable to get it via ppm.

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      It has been a long time since I used perl on Windows!!!

      I remember that http://www.activestate.com/packages/ was a good source for packages (i never liked ppm)

      is it possible to do perl -MCPAN -e shell with activestate perl?

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        To answer your immediate question - yes, you can use the CPAN shell with activestate Perl.

        Remember though - if the module you are attempting to install has any C code then you'll also need a compiler. The benefit of using ppm on Windows is that you'll be installing a pre-compiled binaries (dll's etc).

        -- vek --
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Re: DBD-Oracle missing via PPM?
by thezip (Vicar) on Jan 06, 2003 at 16:39 UTC

    Just a thought... are you behind a firewall?

    If so, you'll need to add the environment variable "HTTP_Proxy", as described in tha ActiveState documentation under the section "PPM, Proxies and Firewalls"

    Where do you want *them* to go today?
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Re: DBD-Oracle missing via PPM?
by Jenda (Abbot) on Jan 06, 2003 at 19:55 UTC

    It would help if you told us what version of ActivePerl do you have.

    Jenda

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