Re: Oracle 10.1.0.2, RedHat AS, and DBD::Oracle

From: Tim Bunce (Tim.Bunce_at_pobox.com)
Date: 07/22/04 

Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 20:15:41 +0100
To: Jim Spath <jspath@focalex.com>

On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 03:56:48PM -0400, Jim Spath wrote:
> Thanks for the input everyone.
>
> You are right Tim, it turned out the Sys Admin had only installed the
> "Instant Client". Once we used the developer install, everything worked
> out OK. Should I be able to install with the instant client only?

Not yet. I believe Oracle are working on fixing this (they'll be
an SDK add-on to "Instant Client").

Tim.

> What made me think that DBD::Oracle 1.15 would not work (or would need a
> hack) was this post:
> http://groups.google.com/groups?q=DBD::Oracle+1.15+oracle+10g+linux+twea
> k&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&selm=aofi20lvmogulfe3o8kabf3g6meenj560u%40
> 4ax.com&rnum=1
>
> But now that I look at it, it seems to simply be a suggestion for
> improving the install process.
>
> Thanks again!
> - Jim
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Bunce [mailto:Tim.Bunce@pobox.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2004 3:33 PM
> To: Jim Spath
> Cc: dbi-users@perl.org
> Subject: Re: Oracle 10.1.0.2, RedHat AS, and DBD::Oracle
>
> On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 11:24:02AM -0400, Jim Spath wrote:
> > We got a fancy new RedHat AS server here at work, and our Sys Admin
> > installed the Oracle 10.1.0.2 client on it (although the Oracle server
> > is running version "Oracle8i Release 8.1.7.4.0"). SQL*Plus seems to
> > work fine for connecting to our Oracle servers, despite the version
> > difference.
> >
> > I was attempting to install DBD::Oracle on this machine and, as you
> > might expect, ran into a few problems.
> >
> > I guess my first question is: Should I even try to install DBD::Oracle
> > (v 1.15) with Oracle 10.1.0.2 on RedHat AS? My sense of the situation
> > is that this version of Oracle is too recent for DBD::Oracle, and I
> > would prefer _not_ to make hacks/tweaks that are out of the ordinary
> to
> > get it to work.
> >
> > If DBD::Oracle can work with Oracle 10.1.0.2, how exactly do I go
> about
> > installing it? My problem is that it says my ORACLE_HOME is not
> valid,
> > even though I can run SQL*Plus.
>
> Sounds like it's using the new Oracle Instant Client.
>
> Should work fine. You can ignore (disable) the ORACLE_HOME error.
> You may need to 'fiddle around' a bit but we can't help more without
> specific information (see the README for what we'd need).
>
> Tim.
>
>
>

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