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I'm trying to follow these instructions for installing DBD::Oracle on a Mac (Snow Leopard 10.6.8): How do you install perl DBD::Oracle on OSX Snow Leopard 10.6

Everything worked fine up until the point where I tried to run

perl Makefile.pl

When I try to run this command, I receive the following error:

Can't open perl script "Makefile.pl": No such file or directory

The instructions are a little confusing as to which directory this command should be run from, if that matters. I tried running it from the oracle_instantClient64 directory while logged in as the root user, from the oracle_instantClient64 directory while logged in as a regular user, and from the ~/.cpan/build directory while logged in a regular user. The post seems to imply that the command should be run from the ~/.cpan/build directory when logged in as the root user, but I don't see that directory when logged in as root.

halfer
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matthewb
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    Go to whatever directory you untarred/zipped the archive for `DBD::Oracle`. In that directory, there should be a file called `Makefile.PL`. That's what you want to run. –  Mar 30 '12 at 19:39

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You have to use the right filename. It's Makefile.PL. You should run the command from the directory which has the Makefile.PL. None of those directories you mentioned have the Makefile.PL.

Or, you can just use one of the CPAN clients:

% cpan DBD::Oracle

The ~/.cpan/build directory has the distributions that the CPAN module has downloaded. If you haven't used that module to fetch the distribution, you won't find the distribution there.

brian d foy
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