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in reply to Perplexing error message with Oracle 10g Express Edition.

This doesn't really answer your question, but you can include modules on the command line by using the -M flag. For instance:

perl -MDBD::oracle

If nothing happens, the include worked. If you get errors, the include obviously did not work. If you don't want to have to hit ctrl-c to get out of it, run this:

perl -MDBD::oracle -e undef