[TriLUG] MySQL & Perl

[Alan Porter]

Mark Freeze said the following:

>Does anyone have any experience using mysql perl scripts?  I am using
>Ubuntu and when I try to install the DBI thru CPAN it fails
>repeatedly.  Does anyone have any advice, good sites, or secrets to
>share? I have been using instructions found at
>
>http://search.cpan.org/~rudy/DBD-mysql-2.9008/
>
>but I seem to be getting nowhere.
>  
>


Instead of using CPAN, you can use the Ubuntu repositories

   apt-get install libdbi-perl libdbd-mysql-perl


Alan




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