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List:       dbi-users
Subject:    Re: DBD-ODBC and DBI 1.21
From:       63.251.223.186
Date:       2008-04-28 22:52:31
Message-ID: 8f788dd5-fb86-4503-94ad-4e4c79a30985 () z72g2000hsb ! googlegroups ! com
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On Apr 28, 12:59 pm, jbead...@pobox.com (Jbeadles) wrote:
> On Apr 26, 3:19 am, bart.lat...@pandora.be (Bart Lateur) wrote:
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> > On Fri, 25 Apr 2008 07:48:35 -0700 (PDT), jbeadles wrote:
> > >This upgrade is requiring me to reload DBI and DBD-ODBC. The issue is
> > >that the DBD-ODBC install fails because it requires DBI 1.21. Googling
> > >everything I can find over the past couple of days indicates that this
> > >is a popular problem. The problem is that I can't find an Activestate
> > >compatible version of DBI 1.21, and can't get the CPAN version to
> > >make.  I've looked in the Activestate folders of downloadable zips for
> > >all Perl releases, and 1.21 does not exist. I've found:
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> > >5xx - 1.14
> > >6xx - 1.34, 1.35, 1.37, 1.48
> > >8xx - 1.35 - 1.602
> > >10xx - 1.602
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> > >But no 1.21.
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> > Eh, what??
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> > It requires *at least* version 1.21 of DBI. There's no need for it to be
> > exactly that version. You can install anything newer.
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> > --
> >         Bart.
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> As I've been trying to resolve all these module conflicts, I noticed
> something.  When I do a manual "ppm install" of a ppd, ppm does not
> take into account modules in the default install when resolving
> dependencies.  Therefore, even though 5.10 comes with DBI 1.601, PPM
> doesn't see it when installing DBD-ODBC.  Hm.- Hide quoted text -
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After figuring this out, I did a ppm install dbd-odbc.ppd - nodeps.
This worked, and I'm successfully querying the database.


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