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This is a brief post on how to get Perl's DBD::mysql working with MAMP 1.7 on Mac OS X Leopard. The instructions for now, are quite concise.

I have found that using CPAN does not seem to work to install DBD::mysql when you only have MAMP installed. The CPAN commands:

perl -MCPAN -eshell
install DBD::mysql

This I think is due to MAMP not having the correct MySQL files or libraries installed. Below are the steps required to get DBD::mysql working.

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Having problems compiling the vmmon kernel module on Debian 4.0 (Etch) using the 2.6.18-3 kernel?

Getting an error like:

The directory of kernel headers (version @@VMWARE@@ UTS_RELEASE) does not match your running kernel (version 2.6.18-3-amd64).  Even if the module were to compile successfully, it would not load into the running kernel. 

To fix this you need to copy the UTS_RELEASE information into the version.h file.

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