I imagine I'll definitely have problems! Can you try explaining to me again why I need to compile my own and why I can't use a packaged version? I did find this link to 5.8 

http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/perl

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This is going to be hard as I couldn't even understand your link for the source code. However I found this page http://www.cpan.org/src/README.html I have downloaded the file for 5.8 and it says I need to do the following: 
 ./Configure -des -Dprefix=$HOME/localperl
  make test
  make install

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What directory do i need to be in when i run these commands and where does my perl 5.8.9 folder which I downloaded need to be relative to this?

There was a specific readme file for linux but that is talking about Experimental Support for Sun Studio Compilers for Linux OS. Does that concern me?

Many thanks

In reply to Re^6: path to perl on umbuntu by Anonymous Monk
in thread path to perl on umbuntu by Anonymous Monk

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