Re: Cant get Perl Module loaded

Yes I posted a bunch of stuff way to hastily and was not clear. I ran
perl -e 'use DBD::Pg' and got this:

perl -e 'use DBD::Pg'
Can't locate DBD/Pg.pm in @INC (@INC contains:
/usr/lib/perl5/5.00503/i586-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.00503
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i586-linux /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005 .)
at -e line 1.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at -e line 1.

I did a find as follows:

joro(at)natascha:/usr/lib/perl5 > find . -name "Pg.pm" -print
./site_perl/5.005/i586-linux/Pg.pm

so the Pg.pm file is in the scripts search path and yet....!?

Anyway to make the original post more complete, I was running a cgi script
as follows:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use Pg;
use DBI;
use CGI qw/:standard/;
$q = new CGI;
print $q->header;

my($dbh)="";
my($datasource)="dbi:Pg:infoman";

$dbh=DBI->connect($datasource) or die "Can't connect\n";

$sth = $dbh->prepare("SELECT Name from Platform");
$sth->execute();
@PLATOPTS=$sth->fetchrow_array();
.
.
.
#After doing some HTML I now try to create the a drop down
print "<p align=\"left\">Platform Selected<select size=\"1\" name=\"PlatID\"
multiple>\n";

foreach $appoption (@PLATOPTS){
print "<option>$platoption</option>\n";
}
Then finish the HTML ...etc.

I get this output:

install_driver(Pg) failed: Can't locate DBD/Pg.pm in @INC (@INC contains:
/usr/lib/perl5/5.00503/i586-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.00503
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i586-linux /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005 .)
at (eval 5) line 3.
Perhaps the DBD::Pg perl module hasn't been fully installed,
or perhaps the capitalisation of 'Pg' isn't right.
Available drivers: ADO, ExampleP, Multiplex, Proxy.
at /usr/local/apache/cgi-bin/vuladd.cgi line 23

I am not sure if I was supposed to compile perl into the posgresql or
postgresql into my perl. Anyway I went to the src directory and followed the
instructions for make install in the postgresql/src/interfaces/perl5
directory and everything seems fine. the permissions are:

joro(at)natascha:/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i586-linux > ls -l Pg.pm
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 18124 May 23 21:32 Pg.pm

If this is not enough information please tell me what else to post. Thanks
for helping me as I am struggling.

-John

"Neil Conway" <nconway(at)klamath(dot)dyndns(dot)org> wrote in message
news:20010522182623(dot)A348(at)klamath(dot)dyndns(dot)org(dot)(dot)(dot)
> On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 12:48:48PM +0000, John wrote:
> > I have installed perl and postgres, followed the instructions on how to
> > install the perl modules and tried to run a simple cgi script to connect
to
> > postgress, get some data and display it.
> >
> > I keep getting a message in the error log that says perl can't find the
> > DBM:Pg module or maybe I misspelled it. I also tried to "include" Pg.pm
and
> > it says it cant find the module. I did a manual find and it is there.
>
> Spelling things correctly (like DBD::Pg) and including the full error
> messages would be helpful. Also, there's a difference between Pg and
> DBD::Pg.
>
> 1) What output does this produce:
>
> perl -e 'use DBI; print join("\n", DBI->available_drivers), "\n"'
>
> 2) Do you get an error when you execute:
>
> perl -e 'use DBD::Pg'
>
> 3) What steps did you follow to install DBD::Pg?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Neil
>
>
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