1.    Download the perl from below command wget http://www.cpan.org/src/5.0/perl-5.14.2.tar.gz 2.    Unzip it tar -xzf perl-5.14.2.tar.gz 3.    Change working directory to perl cd perl-5.14.2 4.    Configure it with below commands ./Configure -des -Dprefix=/usr/bin/perl make make test make install 5.    Once you have done this you can check your new version of perl ...