It yields: "Cannot find blib even in..."

Version is:

"This is perl, v5.8.6 built for i586-linux-thread-multi"

Looks like blib is not part of that version. The CPAN returns a whole Perl package (5.8.8) for blib. Maybe I can install a brand new Perl, if that's straightforward to do over a pre-existing one (I only built Perl when building Linux From Scratch systems, not over an existing running version).