Is there any way for you to get remote shell access to their server? Since you seem to have ftp access to their production directories, they might give it to you. Then you could work remotely.

I have to say that I doubt that you can just copy over something like DBD::Oracle. And the CPAN module won't work for that, too. Maybe you can follow up on a CPAN module build attempt - patch the files in the build directory with the right values for environment variables etc. with a simple perl script, and rerun the CPAN module command.

Christian Lemburg
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