in reply to Perl installation broken

Are you really running a very old version of perl (5.8.8 in this case)? Or do you just load old modules from a stale INC path?

Also, make sure you have an Oracle client library version installed that matches what the DBD::Oracle supports. If you really are running 5.8.8, it's very likely (from my own experience) you are also using an old version of the Oracle client libs.

Check out WHICH VERSION OF DBD::ORACLE IS FOR ME?. Quote: "From version 1.25 onwards DBD::Oracle only support Oracle clients 9.2 or greater. Support for ProC connections was dropped in 1.29".

If you really need an older version of DBD::Oracle, check out Backpan

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