[PLASMA 5] Need to upgrade PERL from installed version 5.3 to latest version.

[spiderman]

I don't know if this is the right place for a question I have, I have details below that may relate to [PLASMA]

Howdy! I am facing the EOL for DROPBOX since they no longer support Linux O/S without being a paid subscriber. I have a subscription with IDRIVE and am attempting to put their program scripts on my system to phase out usage of dropbox. Their system req's are PERL 5.8 or later. Current VER on Kubuntu 21.04 is 5.3. I used Synaptic to pull PERL off another build and it completely destroyed the GUI. So I am facing a tech support at IDrive that doesn't know what I need to do in terminal to upgrade PERL to an appropriate version and am stuck waiting for them to get back to me. SO! I tho't of my friends here @ kubuntu forums. Is there a way to upgrade PERL to the latest version without destroying the KDE desktop?

[claydoh]

The perl in 20.04 is 5.30, 5.8 is ancient. 21.04 will have at least 5.30, if not something newer.

Looking, it seems to be 5.32 in Hirsute.

[FONT=monospace][COLOR=#000000]$ apt policy perl [/COLOR]
perl: 
Installed: 5.30.0-9ubuntu0.2 
Candidate: 5.30.0-9ubuntu0.2 
Version table: 
*** 5.30.0-9ubuntu0.2 500 
500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security/main amd64 Packages 
500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates/main amd64 Packages 
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 
5.30.0-9build1 500 
500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/main amd64 Packages
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or

[FONT=monospace][COLOR=#000000]$ perl --version [/COLOR]

This is perl 5, version 30, subversion 0 (v5.30.0) built for x86_64-linux-gnu-thread-multi 
(with 50 registered patches, see perl -V for more detail)
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[chimak111]

... I am facing the EOL for DROPBOX since they no longer support Linux O/S without being a paid subscriber. ...

That's news to me!

EDIT: I can't find any mention of Dropbox no longer supporting Linux. Perhaps you mean their move to only support ext4? Even that was walked back. See this for example. So what is your source?