I have Perl 5.6 and I need 5.8

[Michael Lake <mikel@speleonics.com.au>]

Hi all

I have a Perl module to install that requires at least Perl 5.7.3 but my 
Perl is Version: 5.6.1-8.7 and thus it won't install.
Im running Debian stable on an LX164.

I did an "apt-get -t testing install perl" imagining that a later perl 
version might be available in testing and also tried unstable but it 
reported back in both cases that the currently installed perl was the 
latest version.

Does anyone know if there is a later Perl and how to get it. Maybe there 
are other apt-sources? On Intel and PPC version 5.8 is the norm for stable.

My sources.list is:

deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
deb http://mirror.pacific.net.au/debian/ stable main contrib non-free
deb-src http://mirror.pacific.net.au/debian/ stable main contrib non-free
deb http://mirror.pacific.net.au/debian-non-US/ stable/non-US main 
contrib non-free
deb-src http://mirror.pacific.net.au/debian-non-US/ stable/non-US main 
contrib non-free

Mike
Linux enthusiast, caver and interested in anything technical.