From: Date: April 7 2004 7:10pm
Subject: Re: perl-DBD-mysql for MySQL4
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On 7 Apr 2004, Joao Miguel Ferreira wrote:

> 2 - then I executed "perl -MCPAN -e 'install DBD::mysql'".
> I was able to get through the initial configuration and finally it
> started downloading the DBD. It was correctly unpacked but somtehing bad
> hapened after (something which I have seen before because before I
> downloaded de DBD 'by hand' and tried installing it and the same
> hapened). So here is:
> 
> 
> a) I get lots of lines equal to this one:
> 
> ----------
> "Unsuccessfull stat on filename containing newline at
> /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/ExtUtils/Liblist/Kid.pm";
> ------------


That is a problem with perl 5.8.0 & redhat 9.  This should get you through 
it:

LANG="" perl -MCPAN -e 'install DBD::mysql'

or you can 'unset LANG' or 'export LANG=""' &c. 


Rudy