5.8.8 is very old, I'd suggest you seriously consider installing a more modern perl elsewere on your system, messing around with the system perl can result in system wide issues. The installation documentation and perlbrew make this trivial. Which modules are you trying to install which result in this error? Please post more information, and as the page sates:

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