Re: DBI error message

Hi John,

You say ppm indicates that DBI is up to date -- did you try running 'ppm 
verify DBD::mysql'?

Mark

John D Thiesen wrote:
> This may be some kind of elementary problem, but I don't understand it.
> 
> I'm trying to run a program that loads records into a mysql table. 
> According to ppm, I have the latest version of DBI installed. But I get 
> the following error message every time:
> 
> install_driver(mysql) failed: Can't locate DBD/mysql.pm in @INC (@INC 
> contains:
> C:/Program Files/perl/site/lib C:/Program Files/perl/lib.) at (eval 4) 
> line 3.
> Perhaps the DBD::mysql perl module hasn't been fully installed
> or perhaps the capitalization of 'mysql' isn't right.
> Available drivers: DBM, ExampleP, File, Gofer, Proxy, SQLite, Sponge.
> at C:\Documents and Settings\jthiesen\My Documents\perl\obitload.pl line 17
> 
> And here's the code in the first part of the program
> 
> use DBI;
> 
> 
> 
> $obitout = DBI->connect('dbi:mysql:obits', 'root', 'password') or die 
> "Connection Error: $DBI::errstr\n";
> 
> 
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