[LON-CAPA-admin] Re: upgrading

[H. K. Ng]

Hi Matthew,

>
>>>>Separate question: Has anyone install oracle 9.2.0 on Fedora Core 2? I 
>>>>am having trouble getting it to work - more to do with DBD-Oracle not 
>>>>wanting to install properly.
>>>I've seen questions like this come by the DBI-Users mailing list 
>>>http://dbi.perl.org/support/
>> From the listing, one that is similar to my problem has the following 
>> answer from the author of DBD-Oracle:
>>       The kinds of errors you're seeing look very odd.
>>       I suggest you upgrade to 5.8.6 and rebuild perl (or perhaps build
>>      a new perl and install it somewhere else). Ideally without threading
>>       enabled.
>>So questions.
>>1. Is it safe to upgrade to perl 5.8.6? Currently, it is 5.8.3.
>
>I'm not sure what you mean by "Safe".  If this is a LON-CAPA server, I 
>don't understand why you'd be installing Oracle and in fact I would advise 
>against doing.

Safe as to whether lon-capa will run. I need oracle for the auto-enrollment.

-hk