Get the list of your installed 5.8 modules: #+BEGIN_SRC sh % perl -MExtUtils::Installed -e'print join("\n", new ExtUtils::Installed->modules)' > module.list #+END_SRC then install Perl 5.10: #+BEGIN_SRC sh % wget http://www.cpan.org/src/perl-5.10.0.tar.gz % tar xzf perl-5.10.0.tar.gz % cd perl-5.10.0 % sh Configure -de -Dprefix=/opt/perl -Duserelocatableinc % make && make test % sudo make install % /opt/perl/bin/perl -e 'use feature qw(say); say "hi"' #+END_SRC and then re-install your modules with cpan `cat module.list`.