PERL Beginners - RE: :Oracle installation script assumes oracle is installed local

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RE: :Oracle installation script assumes oracle is installed local

Brian Barto

2005-08-31, 6:55 pm

> brian.barto@spectrum-health.org wrote:
>
> Oracle server doesn't need to be installed, but the client
> libraries do. You
> need to install those.
>
> If you're on a platform that you cannot or do not want to
> install the Oracle
> client software on, you can install DBD::Oracle on the server and use
> DBD::Proxy on the client.
>

I installed the libraries. In the freebsd ports tree it is
/usr/ports/databases/oracle7-client. Then I had to set my ORACLE_HOME
evironmental variable to /usr/local/oracle7 (where the port installed to).
It works! Thanks for the help.

- Brian

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