Matt Martz wrote:

Does anyone have experience on installing the Oracle instantclient and DBD::Oracle on CentOS 4.4.

I have been having several issues with getting the RPMs from Oracle's site working with DBD::Oracle. I can get the oracle instant client to install without issue. But I cannot compile/install DBD::Oracle using cpan or cpan2rpm.

I found http://freshrpms.net/docs/oracle/ which has a nosrc rpm for the oracle instant client but I cannot find the ZIP files that are referenced in the SPEC file as Oracle has released a new version.

When I try to build perl-DBD-Oracle-1.16-4.el4.src.rpm from that page it errors out...When I try to install perl-DBD-Oracle-1.16-4.el4.i386.rpm it says it cannot locate the .so files that the instantclient installed although I know they are there. I am not sure where that package is assuming the files should be so I cannot symlink them.

Any assistance would be wonderful.

Thanks!

I've been using the specfile available at http://remi.collet.free.fr/rpms/SPEC/oracle-instantclient.spec for about a year now with good results. You will need to get the zipped archives from the Oracle Technology Network website (http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/tech/oci/instantclient/index.html) before building the RPMs, but they are free to download.

For DBD::Oracle, check out FreshRPMS. Ther perl-DBD-Oracle package builds nicely on CentOS 4. You can find the source RPM at http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/2864938/com/perl-DBD-Oracle-1.16....

Your mileage may vary!