Thread: installation DBD::Pg

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font-family:Arial">I do not understand why I would need to completely install Postgre on my server to connect to a
remotePostgre server.</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; 
font-family:Arial"> </span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial">Can you help me w/ this? I am trying to run ‘install DBD::Pg’ using CPAN and it is asking me for the
“Pathto pg_config”.</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; 
font-family:Arial"> </span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial">Is there some other way I can install DBD:Pg without having to install a full version of Postgre on
mymachine?  I would think I wouldn’t have to have Postgre on my local machine to connect to another Postgre DB on an
externalmachine.</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; 
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"Ben Sabadus" <Ben.Sabadus@upsnap.com> writes:

> Can you help me w/ this? I am trying to run 'install DBD::Pg' using CPAN and
> it is asking me for the "Path to pg_config".
>
> Is there some other way I can install DBD:Pg without having to install a
> full version of Postgre on my machine?  I would think I wouldn't have to
> have Postgre on my local machine to connect to another Postgre DB on an
> external machine.

Well CPAN is trying to compile DBD::Pg from source. You don't even need a
complete Postgres install for that, just the development libraries. You don't
explain what operating system you're using but for example most Linux
distributions have a separate package for the development libraries.

Alternatively if your operating system has it you could install a precompiled
DBD::Pg packages instead of compiling from source. On Debian it's called
libdbd-pg-perl for example.

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