installing DBI

[Eloff]

Okay I'm a newbie so bear with me. I want to install the perl DBI module getup thingy. I downloaded the archive, it has all sorts of .pm, .t .h .file stuff in it, do I just upload it to my cgi-bin directory? Any special permissions needed on the files or? They havew a readme with it but it doesn't explain anythign in laymans terms. Favorite quote Narf
Age: 17
School: Alberta Distance Learning Center
Location: British Columbia, Canada
If at first you can't succeed, try, try again. - programmer's motto.

 

[latch]

Heres a nice step by step article on installing Perl modules

http://invent3k.external.hp.com/~MGR.HIRSCH/perlinst.html

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[Eloff]

Whoa okay looking at that almost makes me want to quit this stuff. Am I really supposed to be able to look at that someday AND understand it? I thought I was getting the hang of this stuff until I saw that! Why can't it be something nice and simple like heres 5 files upload em to your cgi-bin, set your permisions to execute and whoala you're done. Whats this perl Makefile.pl, make, make test, make install? They something I'm meant to type in someplace? I don't understand, I'm entirely unfamiliar with unix systems and even more unfamilair with perl modules. Could you try explaining these things like you'd explain it to a person that knows nothing about this stuff? Like very basic things that you do unconsciously but that a person in another field wouldn't have a clue about? You have to take things from the very beginning, I'd really appreciate because I just have no clue what is going on. Favorite quote Narf
Age: 17
School: Alberta Distance Learning Center
Location: British Columbia, Canada
If at first you can't succeed, try, try again. - programmer's motto.

 

[MikeLacey]

Nightmare - you using a windows system or unix (linux counts as unix)? Mike
michael.j.lacey@ntlworld.com
Email welcome if you're in a hurry or something -- but post in tek-tips as well please, and I will post my reply here as well.

 

[Eloff]

I'm using a unix system. It is a virtual host, however, so I do not have access to everything on the machine. Right now I'm not even sure if I have telnet access or not. Age: 17
School: Alberta Distance Learning Center
Location: British Columbia, Canada
If at first you can't succeed, try, try again. - programmer's motto.