Installing Perl on Unix Perl support for MySQL is provided by means of the DBI/DBD client interface. . The Perl DBD/DBI client code requires Perl Version 5.004 or later.The interface will not work if you have an older version of Perl.MySQL Perl support also requires that you’ve installed MySQL client programming support. If you installed MySQL from RPM files, client programs are in the client RPM, but client programming support is in the developer RPM. Make sure you’ve installed the latter RPM.
As of Version 3.22.8, Perl support is distributed separately from the main MySQL distribution. If you want to install Perl support, the files you will need can be obtained from http://www.mysql.com/Downloads/Contrib/.