Situation: Debian ships with Perl 5.005. But there are more recent versions of Perl and Debian lists two versions of Perl 5.6.1, "testing" and "unstable".
Questions: 5.6.1 has been out quite a while and Perl.com lists 5.6.1 as "stable". What about it is not considered "stable" for use on Debian? Or is the "unstable" label just some kind of formality? Is there a way to install 5.6.1 without wiping out 5.005? In other words, can I have both versions running on my machine, allowing the scripts to determine which version of Perl to use? Please keep in mind I'm a total Linux newbie and barely know how to use apt-get. Thanks for your help.
