Re: Re: Cant get Perl Module loaded

On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 08:55:44PM -0400, Neil Conway wrote:
> On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 01:33:46AM +0000, John wrote:
> > Yes I posted a bunch of stuff way to hastily and was not clear. I ran
> > perl -e 'use DBD::Pg' and got this:
> >
> > perl -e 'use DBD::Pg'
> > Can't locate DBD/Pg.pm in @INC (@INC contains:
> > /usr/lib/perl5/5.00503/i586-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.00503
> > /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i586-linux /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005 .)
> > at -e line 1.
> > BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at -e line 1.
> >
> > I did a find as follows:
> >
> > joro(at)natascha:/usr/lib/perl5 > find . -name "Pg.pm" -print
> > ./site_perl/5.005/i586-linux/Pg.pm
>
> DBD::Pg and Pg.pm are completely different. The former is the Postgres
> driver for DBI, the later is a Perl interface to libpq. The file you
> have installed is the later, but your code is trying to use the
> former.
>
> To install DBD::Pg, download it from CPAN. Alternatively, use Pg.pm
> instead -- see `perldoc Pg` for more info (although I would recommend
> DBI, it's nicer IMHO).

for that, try

perl -MCPAN -e shell

and then

> install DBD::Pg

which /should/ make everything all sparkly. if not, you'll have
to do some poking around until you hit on the right incantation.

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