Is the only way a person,who has never had chicken pox,catch shingles,from a person who has shingles with oozing sores? I would like to know, in detail,all about passing shingles to other people.

If you have never had chicken pox you can't catch shingles. To contract shingles one must have had chicken pox earlier in life.

J_9 is correct. I thought I had never had chicken pox, despite never breaking out when my siblings had them and when my students had them years later when I was teaching. But in 2008, lo and behold, a weird bunch of pus-y bumps appeared across my back. My doctor took one look and said, "Yup, you have shingles" and concluded that I must have had a very mild case of chicken pox somewhere along the line.

You may have had chicken pox and don't remember it or didn't realize it.

J_9. who should get a shingles shot?

WAIT!!!!
Shingles CAN spread the virus to people who have never had chickenpox or been vaccinated, and give them chickenpox, but cannot give them shingles. Usually when open sores.