[rt-users] Trouble Installing RT

[John Gedeon]

I did get the modules installed finally and i wrote a short script that 
could connect to the database using the version of perl i installed. but 
RT's installation program dies when it tries to connect.  see error below

At 03:13 PM 9/6/2002 -0700, Rick Rezinas wrote:
>I had a fair amount of trouble getting the modules to install as well, I
>used interactive CPAN, but still a few (DBI, the one it looks like is
>troubling you and others) were reluctant.  I went into the cpan
>repository and did make/make installs on them (skipping the make test,
>cuz it'd fail).  Read the README's before doing that.  But, it worked
>for me.
>
>If anyone has better suggestions (I'm sure they are out there), please
>share.
>
>rick
>
>On Fri, 06 Sep 2002, John Gedeon wrote:
>
> > I have been trying to install RT and all the modules for a while. When I
> > run make install for RT i get the following error
> >
> > DBI->connect(dbname=kdqctdev;host=winchester) failed: Can't connect using
> > this syntax without specifying a HOST and a SID at
> > 
> /local/mnt/workspace/jgedeon/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/DBIx/SearchBuilder/Handle.pm 
>
> > line 117
> > Connect Failed Can't connect using this syntax without specifying a HOST
> > and a SID
> >  at //local/mnt/workspace/jgedeon/local/rt2/etc/insertdata line 27
> > *** Error code 255
> >
> > Can anyone help me?
> >
> > John
> >
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your own understanding;"