note zentara <i>And last but not the least, is there some preferred flavour of linux that any one of you could suggest?</i><p>< a href= http://www.slackware.com/ > Slackware </a><p>As to your problem of running multiple Perls, all you need to do is install your multiple Perl versions manually, and simply change the symlink /usr/bin/perl to point to whichever version you wish to run, like /usr/bin/perl5.14.1 or /usr/bin/perl5.16.0, etc. You just need to keep track of which Perl version you are running, when you install modules. Thats all Perlbrew essentially does for you.<p>If you don't have root priviledges, you can use [cpan://local::lib] to install to your home directory. In that case, you can put a symlink in your homedir's ~/bin directory, which will point to your privately installed Perl's, something like /home/myuser/lib/perl5/various_versions/bin/perl .... that filepath is just off the top of my head, :-) but you should be get the idea. Do it manually, instead of relying on perlbrew. <!-- Node text goes above. Div tags should contain sig only --> <div class="pmsig"><div class="pmsig-131741"> <hr /> I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth.<br> [id://630805] ................... <a href=http://zentara.net/japh.html> flash japh </a> </div></div> 1004406 1004406