Well, I've got my very own Linux machine running now and I'm quite proud. In fact, I'm writing this from my Linux machine. Now I'm ready to get back into Perl and programming with a "real" machine.

My Debian distro, however, came with Perl 5.005. I want to leave 5.005 on there and install 5.6.1. I'm going to attempt to build 5.6.1 from the source and put it in /usr/local. I've already untarred an unzipped it and perused the INSTALL readme file but being a Linux newbie and not very familiar with the guts of Perl, I was pretty lost.

If someone who has created such a "dual-boot" Perl system on Linux, I sure would appreciate hearing from you. How can I install 5.6.1 so it can co-exist peacefully with 5.005?

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