I used perlbrew and it installed pretty easily.

$ perl -v

This is perl, v5.6.2 built for x86_64-linux
(with 1 registered patch, see perl -V for more detail)

Copyright 1987-2003, Larry Wall

Perl may be copied only under the terms of either the Artistic License
+ or the
GNU General Public License, which may be found in the Perl 5 source ki
+t.

Complete documentation for Perl, including FAQ lists, should be found 
+on
this system using `man perl' or `perldoc perl'.  If you have access to
+ the
Internet, point your browser at http://www.perl.com/, the Perl Home Pa
+ge.

$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:    Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 19.10
Release:    19.10
Codename:    eoan

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I've had this perlbrew installation for a while though, so I guess 5.6.2 might have been built on Ubuntu 18.x.

I don't have many problems getting 5.6.1 and 5.6.2 to build on Travis-CI with perlbrew either, though getting a recent version of Test::More to install properly on 5.6.1 can be a challenge.

toby döt ink

In reply to Re: Obtaining perl-5.6.2 for modern Ubuntu by tobyink
in thread Obtaining perl-5.6.2 for modern Ubuntu by syphilis

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