2.1. Prerequisites

The following packages must be installed on your system:

libdbi

This library implements the core database abstraction layer, which provides your application with database backend functionality when paired with this driver. More information about libdbi, including mailing lists, documentation, bug reports, and downloads, is available from the libdbi website.

libpq

This is the C shared library to enable user programs to communicate with the Ingres(R) Community Edition RDBMS.

The current version of the dbd_ingres driver was written and tested with the 32-bit NPTL version II 9.0.4 and 9.2 for Linux/x86, running on Gentoo (see my installation notes).