Overlaping Versions of Perl

silent11 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I had perl version 5.8 on a linux box, when 5.8.1 came out, naturally I upgraded. I noticed that in so doing that I lost some modules, including the LWP library. Now I'm going back and reinstalling some modules via CPAN.pm. *One* of the problems I have run into is the following error.

....
    Test returned status 255 (wstat 65280, 0xff00)
DIED. FAILED tests 1-19
        Failed 19/19 tests, 0.00% okay
local/http............Perl lib version (v5.8.0) doesn't match executab
+le version (v5.8.1) at /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i686-linux/Config.p
+m line 21.
....
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The part that concerns me is:

Perl lib version (v5.8.0) doesn't match executable version (v5.8.1)
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What can I do about that?

-silent11

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