Intsalling perl 5.10 on centos 6.6

yaklichk0719 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Can somebody please recommend a source of Perl 5.8 or 5.10 to install on CentOS 6.6 apart from the command: yum install Perl? I know that it is OS pre-installed but I need a second version of Perl. Thank you, Sergey

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Re: Intsalling perl 5.10 on centos 6.6 by Corion (Patriarch) on Jul 23, 2018 at 15:53 UTC
Here you can find the links to almost all releases of Perl in their source code form. If it has to be Perl 5.10, then I recommend the latest, 5.10.1, but there is very little reason to compile your own 5.10 as there have been very few changes that break backwards compatibility since.	[reply]
Re: Intsalling perl 5.10 on centos 6.6 by marto (Cardinal) on Jul 23, 2018 at 15:52 UTC
Just build it from source. Perl 5.10.1. Follow the instructions in INSTALL. Create your target directory and follow the instructions linked to using the prefix method.	[reply]
Re: Intsalling perl 5.10 on centos 6.6 by dasgar (Priest) on Jul 23, 2018 at 18:10 UTC
...but I need a second version of Perl. If you're needing multiple versions of Perl, you might find perlbrew to be useful.	[reply]
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