can't connect to DBI

[cnw40007]

I have written a perl script to search a database for a name....
On running the script I get an error saying,

Can`t locate DBI.pm in @INC ( @INC contains:
/usr/lib/perl5/5.00503/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i386-linux
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005.) at ./test.cgi line 4. Where i have written use dbi;
Can anyone help?
thanks cnw40007

 

[PaulTEG]

Looks like you haven't got DBI installed

Can you use CPAN, or PPM to see if its installed

;P

 

[cnw40007]

Initially i thought perl5.6.1 came with DBI but i got the same error as above I tried to do ppm but linux didnt like it!so then i tried to install dbi from cpan, when i ran the make,make test and make install commands it spits back errors.What am i doing wrong

 

[PaulTEG]

Don't have linux box here to test.

Have a wise look at the install instructions to see if there are any other dependencies that need to be installed before DBI can be installed.

If you're on a hosted machine, it could be that its worked already, and because you're not root its echoing back a load of crap.

try running this at the command line

#!/usr/bin/perl
use DBI;
print "Hello World\n";

If that runs then its OK

HTH
;P