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From: "Cari D. Burstein" <news3@anybrowser.org>
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Subject: Re: Installing just the Oracle client libraries on Linux
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In article <176f8e61.983f819a@usw-ex0110-076.remarq.com>, Yong 
<yong321NOyoSPAM@yahoo.com.invalid> wrote:

:I think you're calling for wrong support. I don't
:think Oracle gives you necessary software for you to connect
:using DBI or PHP. You need to go to the Perl CPAN site to
:download modules. I used DBI before. You need DBI.pm from
:cpan.perl.com.
:<p>
:
:If you need sqlplus connection from your computer to the
:server where you can do SQL*Plus stuff like DESCRIBE
:mytable, yes, you need Oracle client software. But your
:message only talks about Perl connection with SQL (no
:SQL*Plus). That's different.

The instructions for DBI and PHP both indicate that the Oracle client 
libraries are needed to install them. They don't come with them, so I 
need to get the libraries first before I can use DBI and PHP. This is 
what was needed as well for MySQL, but MySQL was easier because you can 
just get the client stuff from their site. I don't think I need the 
client software exactly, just libraries that probably come with the 
client software- that's how it worked with MySQL.

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