There is more than one way to do it:

• Using the package manager:

  sudo apt install perl
  

• Installing from source:

  wget http://www.cpan.org/src/5.0/perl-version.tar.gz
  tar -xzf perl-version.tar.gz
  cd perl-version
  ./Configure -de
  make
  make test
  make install
  

• Installing in your $home directory (not sudo needed) with Perlbrew:

  wget -O - https://install.perlbrew.pl | bash
  

  See also Perlbrew

There are several options:

• Perlbrew:

  # You need to install Command Line Tools for Xcode  
  curl -L https://install.perlbrew.pl | bash
  

• Perlbrew with thread support:

  # You need to install Command Line Tools for Xcode  
  curl -L https://install.perlbrew.pl | bash
  

  After the install of perlbrew, if you want to install Perl with thread support, just run:

  perlbrew install -v perl-5.26.0 -Dusethreads
  

• From source:

  tar -xzf perl-version.tar.gz
  cd perl-version
  ./Configure -de
  make
  make test
  make install
  

• As we said before, we go with the open-source version. For Windows you can choose strawberry or DWIM. Here we cover the strawberry version, since DWIM is based on it. The easy way here is installing from the official executable.

See also berrybrew - the perlbrew for Windows Strawberry Perl