Mike Hunter said: > Hi, > > I'm new to amd64 as of this nice new dual opteron box I've just > received...I may be seeing a lot of you guys in the coming weeks :) Any reason why you installed 5.2.1 (Its an old pre-release version)? If this is a fresh box, then i highly recommend you install 5.3 instead. Perl 5.8.5 is packaged with 5.3 too.