Question

When I run a perl script which uses DBD::mysql , I get the error message:

install_driver(mysql) failed: Can't load '/home/y/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8/i686-linux-64int/auto/DBD/mysql/mysql.so'
for module DBD::mysql: libmysqlclient.so.16: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
at /home/y/lib/perl5/5.8/i686-linux-64int/DynaLoader.pm line 230. at (eval 30) line 3

I am new to perl, but from what I understand it needs mysql.so and it knows the path.

/home/y/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8/i686-linux-64int/auto/DBD/mysql/mysql.so is present.

Then why the problem?

Answer 1

The file that is missing is libmysqlclient.so.16, not mysql.so. It comes with the mysqlclient package on some distributions.