How to install perl 5.12 in centos 7?

Question

Perl

Can you please tell me how to install perl version 5.12 in centos 7, and remove the newer package?

Answer 1

If you need to have multiple versions of Perl, if you need a version that is too new or too old and not in the distribution, then you can use perlbrew .

Quote from Pragmatic Perl magazine

Answer 2

delete via yum erase
install via rmp -ivh or yum localinstall