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

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

==== Most likely there are no *.mk files anywhere on the system.  Don't waste time scrounging for one.  It won't help anyway.  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

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Sfiggins: Created page with "==== Sometimes the following error occurs while attempting to install DBD::Oracle ==== Unable to locate an oracle.mk or other suitable *.mkfile in your Oracle installatio..."

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