On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 05:54:18PM +0000, John P . Looney wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 05:44:15PM +0000, fergal daly mentioned:
> > Has anyone set this up? I don't want to download the whole Oracle
> > thingy, I just want to be able to access an Oracle DB using Perl under
> > linux, but I can't find a client package anywhere on Oracle's technet
> > site.
>> You are going to have to have the Oracle client libraries to do anything,
> and the headers too if you want to compile a perl module for it. You can
> prolly get the oracle client libs & headers into 30MB or so, but you need
> to download the lot to get it out :)
Yeah, it sucks. There isn't even any decent documentation outlining
what files you need.
Last time I needed to do this I just copied a load of libraries from
a machine with a full Oracle install, but I'm sure I have loads of
files I don't need.
You're probably going to have to download the whole lot...
Kathryn.
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