The file in question (Expat.so) exists in the proper directory

However, the file that's not being found is libperl.so.5.26 (though it, too, will presumably still be where it always was).

Which perl are you wanting to execute - the system perl-5.28.2 ? ... or the perl-5.26 that's in /home/john/perl5/ ?
I would recommend staying with the perl in /home/john/perl5, but it seems you are currently using a mixture of both - which is not going to work.

Could you provide full output of perl -V (that's an uppercase V).

Update: Also the output of echo $PATH might be helpful.
I suspect that all you really needed to do was to first run:

export PATH=/home/john/perl5/bin:$PATH
[download]

and everything would have still worked.
However, there's now the issue of which XML::Parser was removed. (Nothing that can't be fixed.)

Cheers,
Rob

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