View source for Installing the DBD::Oracle perl module

==== Sometimes the following error occurs while attempting to install DBD::Oracle ====

Unable to locate an oracle.mk or other suitable *.mk<br>file in your Oracle installation.&nbsp; (I looked in /usr/lib/oracle....)<br><br>The oracle.mk (or demo_rdbms.mk) file is part of the Oracle<br>RDBMS product.&nbsp; You need to build DBD::Oracle on a<br>system which has one of these Oracle components installed.<br>(Other *.mk files such as the env_*.mk files will not work.)<br>Alternatively you can use Oracle Instant Client.<br><br>In the unlikely event that a suitable *.mk file is installed<br>somewhere non-standard you can specify where it is using the -m option:<br>perl Makefile.PL -m /path/to/your.mk<br>

==== Most likely there are no *.mk files anywhere on the system.&nbsp; Don't waste time scrounging for one.&nbsp; It won't help anyway.&nbsp; The error message is itself erroneous.  ====

==== You should be able to get the module installed by doing the following (skipping any steps that you've already done):  ====

#Exit the cpan shell 
#Download the version 11.2 "basic" and "devel" instant client rpms from the oracle web site for your machine architecture. 
#Become root 
#rpm -i oracle-instantclient11.2-basic-11.2.0.3.0-1.x86_64.rpm (for 64-bit architecture) 
#rpm -i oracle-instantclient11.2-devel-11.2.0.3.0-1.x86_64.rpm (for 64-bit architecture) 
#export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/oracle/11.2/client64/lib 
#export ORACLE_HOME=/usr/lib/oracle/11.2/client64 
#find and cd into the .cpan build directory. (probably, but not always, /root/.cpan/build) 
#cd into the DBD-Oracle directory (will look something like: DBD-Oracle-1.66-4qqv8i) 
#perl Makefile.PL -V 11.2 
#make 
#make install