As tilly said, sybperl is way out of date; however, it sounds like you're confusing a database server (Sybase) with the client libraries that are used to connect to a server. DBD::Sybase is the preferred method for connecting a Sybase server and Michael Peppler (mpeppler here) is *the* perl/sybase guy.

In Ubuntu, you should be able to install the DBD::Sybase driver ... for me, it's named "Sybase/MSSQL database driver for the DBI module" -- that being said, you're still going to need a Sybase server to connect to.