Installing DBI and DBD on Linux

To try out the Perl DBI, you need to install it. Although Perl is usually preinstalled on a Unix or Linux system, DBI and DBD usually are not. We'll go through the procedure for installing from source on a Unix or Linux system.

The following software components are essential for interfacing between Perl and MySQL:

  • DBI-version, the compressed download called something like DBI-1.18.tar.gz

  • Msql-Mysql-modules-version, the compressed download called something like Msql-Mysql-modules-1.2216.tar.gz

Also recomm]ended is

  • Data-ShowTable-version, the compressed download called something like Data-ShowTable-3.3.tar.gz

First get the tar.gz files by downloading them from the Internet (for example, the API section of http://www.mysql.com/downloads/contrib.html ...

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