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Hi weihe,

IIRC you need to install the Oracle client which comes on the CDROM before installing DBD::Oracle. I believe that you can no longer download the Oracle client from their website due to a change in their licensing. Please correct me if I am wrong, this may not be correct. Recently a question was asked if there was a work around for installing DBD::Oracle without the installing the Oracle client. Advice on alternative methods of accessing Oracle were provided.

Update: Slight update to clarify link to DBD::Oracle - is it a must to have an oracle client?.

Hope this helps.

Martin
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Re^2: i can't use ppm to install dbd-oracle
by gellyfish (Monsignor) on Aug 17, 2006 at 09:37 UTC

    Well two things, firstly the PPM installer for DBD::Oracle actually does download the required Oracle client DLLs as the OPs post shows, it downloads them separately from Oracle I assume and you have to agree to the licence terms; secondly you can download the Oracle client from the Oracle Website. Getting the latter before installing DBD::Oracle might help as you can get it installed anc check that it works before installing the module.

    /J\

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