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in thread Oracle database connection

You can do something like this for the script:
BEGIN { $ENV{ORACLE_HOME} = "E:\\Oracle\\Ora92\\"; } # See man page for DBD::Oracle and seeting of ENV variables.

In this case I was on a Windoze box, but it works the same on *nix

To make DBD::Oracle work I needed to have Oracle installed.