When you run perl the old Perl interpreter is executing. If you specify the full path to the new interpreter you've just installed then it should work. Try it, with the -V option to display the version.

So now the problem isn't a Perl problem at all; it's that your computer is picking the wrong version of an app to run. That's probably down to your PATH setting. Tweak that so that the directory containing your new version of Perl comes before the one containing the older version (or remove the older one entirely.

The other thing is that I cannot use PPM, not that it is going to help me here, as the requests out are blocked by the firewall.

In similar situations I have been able to download PPM files from a repository using a web-browser, then unzip them and use PPM to install them locally. That way your firewall will never know, but you don't have to resort to make.

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