Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi,
The version of perl at my work is very old and It doesn't have advanced perl modules. I need to install DBI and DBD::Sybase modules but I dont have the root access.

So I have installed DBI module in my home directory.
And trying to install DBD::Sybase, with the followint command:
perl Makefile.PL `cat /home/user/perl_dirs` where perl_dirs file is having the entries as

PREFIX=/home/user \
INSTALLPRIVLIB=/home/user/lib/perl5 \
INSTALLSCRIPT=/home/user/bin \
INSTALLSITELIB=/home/user/lib/perl5/site_perl \
INSTALLBIN=/home/user/bin \
INSTALLMAN1DIR=/home/user/lib/perl5/man \
INSTALLMAN3DIR=/home/user/lib/perl5/man3

It throws the error "Can't locate DBI.pm".
Is there anything I am missing?

DBI::Sybase may have the DBI.pm as its dependency.So you first install DBI.pm.Then try to install DBI::Sybase.

Hi Karthigayan,
Thanks for your reply.

I have already installed DBI module in my home directory. Problem is the DBD::Sybase is unable to locate DBI module, because it was installed in my home directory.

I think it looks in @INC which doesn't have the location of DBI.pm

I have checked the values of PERL5LIB and PERLLIB, they are not set.

Where else is the perl taking the @INC value from?

Assign the path of DBI.pm in the PERL5LIB and export in in your .bashrc.Then the DBI.pm will add to the @INC.

Code:

export PERL5LIB="/home/username/perlmodules/"

Thanks.