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I have little to no idea about administrating Debian, but I would like to at least use that release of Perl. Googling has proven unfruitful, so i turn to you, Stackoverflow.

Note: Managed to find the solution already, this explains how to enable installs of 'testing': http://jaqque.sbih.org/kplug/apt-pinning.html

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  • $ apt-cache policy perl perl: Installed: 5.10.1-11 Candidate: 5.10.1-11 Version table: *** 5.10.1-11 0 500 ftp.us.debian.org unstable/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status – jrockway Mar 4 '10 at 9:57
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sudo apt-get install perl

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  • I think that installs Perl v5.10.0 – Brad Gilbert Mar 3 '10 at 15:51
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I find it useful not to mess with the system perl. Instead, I would recommend installing Perl 5.10.1 from source in a custom location. E.g.:

sh Configure -Dprefix=/opt/perl
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  • @mithaldu Thank you for accepting my answer. It is customary to vote up the answer you accept. – Sinan Ünür Mar 3 '10 at 21:01
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    I like Debian's Perl. It is nice to be able to install non-CPAN modules and have them work (Audio::XMMSClient, for example). Any modules that I can install from CPAN, I do, and store them in ~/perl5 with local::lib. Maintaining your own Perl is a pain in the ass. Let your OS do it for you. – jrockway Mar 4 '10 at 9:58
  • Yeah, don't mess with the system perl. You will break your whole system. If you want a different version, install it manually and separately. You could still use checkinstall if you wanted to. – Ryan C. Thompson Jul 4 '10 at 22:40
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Did you try sudo aptitude install perl? to search for the packages you want do sudo aptitde search KEYWORD.

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  • I think that installs Perl v5.10.0 – Brad Gilbert Mar 3 '10 at 15:51
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Debian uses Perl as a dependency for many of its applications so its not wise to mess with the installed version of Perl. If you would like to try out your code with a different verion of Perl like 5.10 then you should install perlbrew. It allows you to test your code against multiple versions of perl by having multiple perl installations on the same system in a easy to manage way. http://perlbrew.pl/

You can install perlbrew from debian repository

sudo apt-get install perlbrew

Once you have installed Perlbrew you can manage your Perl versions easily. following commands install Perl 5.16.0 and switch your active Perl version to 5.16.0

perlbrew install perl-5.16.0

perlbrew switch perl-5.16.0

Then you can run your scripts using the Perlbrew command

perlbrew exec perl myprogram.pl

HTH

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