This I downloaded from cpan
No, ActiveState :)
DBD-Oracle-1.17.zip unpacks into DBD-Oracle-1.17.tar.gz and DBD-Oracle.ppd. DBD-Oracle-1.17.tar.gz unpacks into 
blib/
blib/lib/
blib/lib/DBD/
blib/lib/DBD/.exists
blib/lib/DBD/Oracle/
blib/lib/DBD/Oracle/GetInfo.pm
blib/lib/DBD/Oracle.pm
blib/lib/auto/
blib/lib/auto/DBD/
blib/lib/auto/DBD/Oracle/
blib/lib/auto/DBD/Oracle/.exists
blib/lib/Oraperl.pm
blib/lib/oraperl.ph
blib/arch/
blib/arch/auto/
blib/arch/auto/DBD/
blib/arch/auto/DBD/Oracle/
blib/arch/auto/DBD/Oracle/dbdimp.h
blib/arch/auto/DBD/Oracle/mk.pm
blib/arch/auto/DBD/Oracle/.exists
blib/arch/auto/DBD/Oracle/Oracle.h
blib/arch/auto/DBD/Oracle/Oracle.bs
blib/arch/auto/DBD/Oracle/ocitrace.h
blib/arch/auto/DBD/Oracle/Oracle.dll
blib/arch/auto/DBD/Oracle/Oracle.exp
blib/arch/auto/DBD/Oracle/Oracle.lib
blib/arch/auto/DBD/Oracle/Oracle.pdb
blib/script/
blib/script/ora_explain.bat
blib/script/.exists
blib/script/ora_explain
ioic
oracle-instant-client/
oracle-instant-client/LICENSE
oracle-instant-client/i686-linux-thread-multi/
oracle-instant-client/MSWin32-x86-multi-thread/
oracle-instant-client/MSWin32-x86-multi-thread/MD5SUM
oracle-instant-client/MSWin32-x86-multi-thread/install.lst
oracle-instant-client/MSWin32-x86-multi-thread/oci.dll
oracle-instant-client/MSWin32-x86-multi-thread/oraociei10.dll

[download]
What you're supposed to do is 
D:\>ppm install D:\DBD-Oracle.ppd

[download]
or 
D:\>ppm
PPM interactive shell (2.1.6) - type 'help' for available commands.
PPM>
PPM>ppm install D:\DBD-Oracle.ppd

[download]
but doesn't seem to work as intended (it still tries to download files from http://ppm.activestate.com/libs/oracle-instant-client because oracle-instant-client gets deleted before ioic is finished).

So what you can do is unpack DBD-Oracle-1.17.tar.gz (ptar -zxvf DBD-Oracle-1.17.tar.gz), and cd to where ioic resides, and run perl ioic. Then run ppm install DBD-Oracle.ppd but this time when prompted by ioic Do you accept the terms of this license ? (y/n) :, chose n , so it won't try to download again.

In reply to Re: issue with dbd-oracle installation on win32 by Anonymous Monk
in thread issue with dbd-oracle installation on win32 by Anonymous Monk

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