I'm trying to apply the TRIAL1 && TRIAL2 patches to perl5.6.0 so I can get AxKit to work on my system (linux). I've never used patch before so I'm not sure if I'm doing this correctly. This is what I've done so far; 
1) cd to /usr/src/perl/perl-5.6.0
2) /bin/sh /usr/local/src/perl-5.6.1-TRIAL1.patch
3) patch -p1 -N < /usr/local/src/perl-5.6.1-TRIAL1.patch

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Everything seemed to go smoothly, but when I typed 'perl -V' it still said it was 5.6.0 and that it was last compiled on Dec 2 2000. Did I miss a step here? Any help you could offer would be most appreciated.

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