[ic] Installing mysql libraries w/o root

[Leon Harris]

Hi.
if you use bash, you can put in the interchange users profile

PERL5LIB=$PERL5LIB:/path/to/your/modules
export  PERL5LIB

Thats how to do this with perl - never done it with IC but this should work.

HTH ,
Leon



"Patrick J. Walsh" wrote:

> Perl experts:
>
>     I would like to move my databases from gdbm to mysql.  However, I do not
> have root access on the server where our catalog is located.  This script:
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl
>
> use DBI;
> use DBD::mysql;
>
>     produces this error:
>
> Can't load
> '/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i386-linux/auto/DBD/mysql/mysql.so' for
> module DBD::mysql:
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i386-linux/auto/DBD/mysql/mysql.so: undefined
> symbol: uncompress at /usr/lib/perl5/5.00503/i386-linux/DynaLoader.pm line
> 169.
>
>  at ./tmp.perl line 4
>
>     I presume that the fix for this is to install the latest DBD::mysql, but
> since I'm not root, perl -MCPAN -e 'install DBD::mysql' produces errors.
> Assuming that I need to install this, what's the best way to install it in
> my home directory and then what do I do to Interchange to get it to use my
> copy of DBD::mysql instead of the system copy?  (Remember that I don't have
> access to Interchange's source code on this server).
>
>     Any help appreciated.
>
> ..Patrick
>
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