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I'd love to help you with perlbrew, but I find it too complicated, for simple debug, try perl -V or perl -e " die $^X "

This works for me

download, make, install, perl 5.8.1
wget -c http://cpan.org/src/perl-5.8.1.tar.gz tar -zxvf perl-5.8.1.tar.gz cd perl-5.8.1 ./Configure -des -Dprefix=~/p/5.8.1/ make install
use this perl by making it first in path
export PATH=~/p/5.8.1/perl/bin:$PATH
verify path
which perl perl -V perl -e "die $^X"
verify path from cpanp
$ cpanp CPANPLUS::Shell::Default -- CPAN exploration and module installation ( +v0.9105) CPAN Terminal> !warn $^X