[ale] Oracle DBD-DBI

[Armsby John-G16665]

This is probably a repeat questions BUT I can find the previous answer....
 
I am running redhat 9 std install.  I want to connect to a remote Oracle 8 machine via Perl.  I have the DBD Oracle 1.5 tar file.  Unfortunately it complains about an ORACLE_HOME environmental variable.  perl Makefile.PL bombs out....
 
>From reading the clients.readme file, it appears that I must have Oracle files on my machine in order to access Oracle on another machine.  I am a bit confused.  My expertise to date is win32::odbc with perl and access.  My plan is to move Access to MYSQL but I also have to get at a table on a remote Oracle 8 machine.
 
Anyone use DBD to get at oracle?  What do I have to install?  
 
 
John
 
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