[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi all. I am attempting to install DBD::Oracle from the perl CPAN
> shell. The installation script seems to assume that oracle is
> installed locally. It asks me to set ORACLE_HOME to the path the
> oracle is installed and to try again. Well I don't have oracle
> installed locally. I want to install DBD::Oracle so I can connect to
> a remote oracle server. Any ideas? 

Oracle server doesn't need to be installed, but the client libraries do. You
need to install those.

If you're on a platform that you cannot or do not want to install the Oracle
client software on, you can install DBD::Oracle on the server and use
DBD::Proxy on the client.

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