"Can someone tell me what rpm's on the distro cd's will install perl5."
You need several packages. The list on Fedora is:
perl-5.8.1-92
perl-DateManip-5.40-30
perl-Filter-1.29-8
perl-HTML-Parser-3.26-18
perl-HTML-Tagset-3.03-28
perl-libwww-perl-5.65-6
perl-libxml-enno-1.02-29
perl-libxml-perl-0.07-28
perl-Parse-Yapp-1.05-30
perl-SGMLSpm-1.03ii-12
perl-URI-1.21-7
perl-XML-Dumper-0.4-25
perl-XML-Encoding-1.01-23
perl-XML-Parser-2.31-16
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