200 DB2 Deployment Guide
4.7.2 Installation of IBM Perl driver
First we discuss about prerequisites to installing IBM Perl driver (DBD::DB2) and
then we show how to install DBD::DB2.

Prerequisites to installing DBD::DB2

Before installing DBD::DB2, you require the following software:
򐂰Perl version 5.6 or greater:
Perl is required to install DBD::DB2. Most Linux and UNIX systems come with
Perl installed, but you might want to install a local copy of Perl on which you
have full control. You can download the latest Perl from:
http://www.perl.com/download.csp
This page contains links to download both the source code and binaries for
various platforms. You can refer to Perl documentation at:
http://www.perl.com/pub/q/documentation
򐂰DBI version 2.1 or greater:
DBD::DB2 is based on DBI and thus, you have to install DBI before installing
DBD::DB2.
For Linux and UNIX, download the latest DBI from:
http://search.cpan.org/author/TIMB/DBI/
Example 4-39 shows how to install DBI on Linux and UNIX systems:
Example 4-39 Installing DBI on Linux and UNIX
wget http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/T/TI/TIMB/DBI-1.605.tar.gz
tar -xvf DBI-1.605.tar.gz
cd DBI-1.605/
perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install
If you are using ActiveState Perl distribution (version 5.8 or greater) on
Windows, you can install DBI by issuing the following command on the
command line:
ppm install DBI
After DBI is successfully installed, you can check the documentation by
issuing the following command on the command line:
perldoc DBI