Re: Oracle client?
Andy Osborne <[email protected]>
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Gatling, Paul wrote: > I've tried my hardest to find something, and I've gotten quite a bit to > work as far as ODBC connectivity from an Aurora machine, but I've hit a > dead end that maybe someone on this list can help me out with. > > I need to get DBD::Oracle to work for Aurora. As far as I can tell, I > have to install the Oracle client first, however they only put out a > Linux i386 client OR a Solaris sparc client. Obviously this puts me in > a pickle. > > Can anyone help me out getting an Oracle client for linux/sparc or get > the source code (ha!) so I can compile it? Or even better, does anyone > know a quick way to connect to an Oracle database from an Aurora > machine? I've never tried it with Oracle, so apologies if it turns out to be a useless suggestion ;-). Could you run DBI::ProxyServer on the Oracle database host, which obviously will have all the libraries needed for DBD::Oracle and then connect from the Aurora machine using DBD::Proxy ? Andy _______________________________________________ Aurora-sparc-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.auroralinux.org/mailman/listinfo/aurora-sparc-user Aurora FAQ: http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~mas01r/aurorafaq.html