Without seeing anything of the output, it's hard to diagnose.

But you seem to be trying to install over the perl binary supplied by your OS vendor. The general advice is against doing that, as the system perl should only be managed through the system package manager. Manually modifying the system Perl can render your system tools unworkable and will cause conflicts between your OS package manager and CPAN when binary packages are changed.

The general approach is to install your version under /opt/perl/ or /opt/perl-5.20/ and set the path in your Perl scripts appropriately. Alternatively, consider looking at perlbrew, which automates installing (yet) another version of Perl on your system.

In reply to Re^4: perl installation failed, need help by Corion
in thread perl installation failed, need help by defborg

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