Re: Need help, struggling installing mysql in Perl v5.10.0

Hi,

The error shows that DBD:mysql has not been installed correctly. Remove and
install again.

On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 9:05 PM, thalapathy <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi, struggling
>
> I have written a script to connect the mysql db
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl  -w
>
> use DBI;
> #definition of variables
> $db="MYTEST";
> $host="localhost";
> $user="root";
> $password="rootpass";
>
> #connect to MySQL database
> my $dbh   = DBI->connect
> ("DBI:mysql:database=$db:host=$host:3366",$user,$password)
>                          or die "Can't connect to database:
> $DBI::errstr\n";
>
> as specified mysql port is 3366 not 3306
>
> but this returns with error,
>
> install_driver(mysql) failed: Can't locate DBD/mysql.pm in @INC (@INC
> contains: C:/Perl/site/lib C:/Perl/lib .
> ) at (eval 4) line 3.
> Perhaps the DBD::mysql perl module hasn't been fully installed,
> or perhaps the capitalisation of 'mysql' isn't right.
> Available drivers: CSV, DBM, ExampleP, File, Gofer, ODBC, Oracle, Proxy,
> SQLite, Sponge.
>  at sample.pl line 11
>
> But I already installed DBD::mysql
>
> C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>ppm install DBD::mysql
> Downloading ActiveState Package Repository packlist...not modified
> No missing packages to install
>
> C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>ppm verify DBD::mysql
> ppm verify failed: Package 'DBD::mysql' is not installed
>
> C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>
>
> I'm using perl version, 5.10.0 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
>
> Any help will be appreciated, Thanks in advanced for all your help
>
> regards,
> thalapathi b
>
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