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Perl DBD Mysql Install

Since ActiveState now cockblocks all PPM installs without a $1,000 business edition license (Dumb). You will need to install DBD a different way for now.

This type of information will be easily available in the new Wiki that we have on the way (Which is awesome). You can install DBD MySQL (Perl Module) through this simple alternate repo:

Code:

ppm install http://www.bribes.org/perl/ppm/DBD-mysql.ppd

Downloading DBD-mysql-4.023...done

Unpacking DBD-mysql-4.023...done

Generating HTML for DBD-mysql-4.023...done

Updating files in site area...done

  12 files installed

I spent several hours online trying to work around this for a 5.10 1204 build version but just about all of the workarounds have dead ends. For something that normally takes a few seconds...

Thanks to c0ncrete of all things for a the alternate repo link. A lot of alternate repos are actually dead for 5.10.

Here is also a list of alternate repos:

http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/JDB/P...epositories.pm

To install other modules, you can manually HTTP browse for them by sifting the root of the index directory:

http://www.bribes.org/perl/ppm/

Not too long ago I seen a post about a possible Postgres implementation.

http://www.eqemulator.org/forums/sho...light=postgres

I have ran into the MySQL roadblock before... Having a fully open source alternative at some point might be nice eh?

Btw...Thank you for EoC!

MariaDB integrates just fine so I have heard, and is open-source.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Akkadius (Post 228785)

This type of information will be easily available in the new Wiki that we have on the way (Which is awesome).

This will be great! There's been SOO many threads asking for the current Windows set up guide to be updated. I was tempted to do it, but got a 500 error trying to log into the current wiki. So having a wiki where we can collaborate would be amazing.

Quote:

Originally Posted by moofta (Post 228807)

Yeah a new wiki would be great as I am currently the only one still logged in to the wiki and able to make changes.

Next server install I will give Maria a try.

Not sure why I posted about DB, when Perl was the culprit. How is the Lua integration coming? I would just love to try Lua // Postgres at some point ;)

Gary

Lua has been in for almost a year.

How much of the overall quests have been fully implemented in Lua? Would be cool to drop perl altogether.

We currently have 1297 lua files converted out of a total of 6233 files altogether. Which mean 4936 files are perl.

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Originally Posted by rhyotte (Post 228805)

It's ActiveState Perl that is the problem not allowing PPM modules to be installed without a business license. Not MySQL itself.

And no problem on EoC :)